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1. comparison, comparing -- (examining resemblances or differences) The verb compare has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (62) compare -- (examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie")

 

 

comparing (scanning) TO RETURN TO READING, CLICK "BACK" ON YOUR BROWSER MENU.

Working Definition:

Comparing is a fundamental cognitive ability to match a source and a taget to each other so as to reveal similarities and differences.

Disciplinary Definitions:

scanning: "the operation that relates a standard of comparison and a target, registering any discrepany between them." (Langacker, Foundations of Cogntive Grammar, [3.1.2.]

See Ragin, The Comparative Method.

Comments:

The comparative method is the basis of configural analysis.

Notes

"comparison" as "scanning" is the basis of analogizing. (Langacker, Foundations of Cogntive Grammar, 2002, 103) It involves distinguishing followed by recognizing similarities

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