La concettualizzazione della struttura della città attraverso la profilazione degli elementi urbani di collegamento
The conceptualization of the city’s structure through the profiling of urban connective elements

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to analyze the urban lexicon of the Italian language through the study of the profiling of urban structures and their projection onto other concepts. The cognitive domain of the cit y (città) in Italian proves to be highly productive, generating a wide variety of expressions that utilize elements of urban infrastructure to describe objects, activities, phenomena, and more. This research focuses particularly on elements of urban structures with a connecting function. As a methodological tool for the analysis, the construal process has been adopted, specifically referring to one of its dimensions: conceptual profiling, a notion derived from Ronald W. Langacker’s theory of Cognitive Grammar. The objective of the research is to demonstrate how the city and its elements are described in the Italian language, based on their conceptualization, and how they are used to describe and understand other spheres of everyday life.

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