Esa Itkonen

Esa Itkonen (born January 3, 1944) is a Finnish linguist, philosopher and language theorist.

He is professor emeritus of general linguistics at the University of Turku.

Esa Itkonen earned his PhD at the University of Helsinki in 1974.

[2] In his 2005 book Analogy as Structure and Process, Itkonen argues that analogy is the most central concept in language formation.

According to Itkonen, various forms of analogical reasoning are hidden behind other terminology in the study of language and other cognitive domains.