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Analogies

Analogies are comparisons that highlight a similarity between two things, mapping the relationships found in one familiar domain onto another that is less familiar. They work by drawing correspondences between structures or relations rather than surface features, allowing an idea to be explained, an inference to be …

Curated from this journal's research 📚 2 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 1× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2998-4122 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Analogies are comparisons that highlight a similarity between two things, mapping the relationships found in one familiar domain onto another that is less familiar. They work by drawing correspondences between structures or relations rather than surface features, allowing an idea to be explained, an inference to be transferred, or a problem to be approached using knowledge from a better-understood case. Analogies appear throughout language, literature, rhetoric, science, mathematics, and everyday reasoning, where they serve to clarify abstract concepts, persuade, generate hypotheses, and support learning. In linguistics and cognitive science, analogy is studied as a mechanism of meaning and reasoning, including how analogical patterns shape word formation, grammar, and conceptual metaphor, and how the mind aligns and maps relational structure. Effective analogies depend on a genuine correspondence between the compared domains, while weak or misleading analogies can distort understanding when the mapping breaks down. As a subject within Language Research, analogy bridges the study of figurative language, comprehension, and the cognitive processes underlying how people connect and extend meaning. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to analogies and related questions of language, meaning, and reasoning within the journal's broader scope.

Research published in this journal

2 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 2 articles above have been cited 1 time in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Oct 2025.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Language Research (ISSN 2998-4122).

Journal editorial board
Marcel Pikhart · Czech Republic Óscar Navarro · Spain

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