Vertailluissa
Vertailluissa is a term used in Finnish-language discourse to refer to the use and analysis of analogies and comparisons in reasoning, argumentation, and communication. The word combines the verb vertailla, meaning to compare, with the suffix -issa, which denotes a state or setting, roughly translating to “in comparisons” or “in analogies.” In scholarly use, vertailluissa describes how people draw parallels between different cases or concepts to support conclusions, explain phenomena, or persuade an audience.
In practice, the concept spans several fields, including linguistics, rhetoric, education, and cognitive science. Researchers study
Methodologies associated with vertailluissa include discourse analysis, corpus-based studies of argumentative texts, and experimental tasks that