Relational Semantics and the Anatomy of Abstraction

This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics.

Tamar Sovran is Associate Professor in the Hebrew Culture Studies Department at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

1. Introduction 2. Background and Methods 3. Similarity 4. Difference 5. Negativity 6. Truth 7. Norm 8. Abstraction and Poetic Metaphor 9. Conclusion