Il concetto di città. Tra cognizione e linguaggio
The Concept of the City. Between Cognition and Language

Author(s): Aleksandra Paliczuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Semantics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: cognitive linguistics; conceptualization; construal; profiling; city; Italian language
Summary/Abstract: The book analyzes the mechanisms through which language, cognition, and culture jointly construct the city (città) as an object of experience and a tool of conceptualization. The first part outlines the foundations of cognitive linguistics, focusing on processes of meaning construction. The second part applies this theoretical framework to the analysis of the Italian urban lexicon, showing how embodied experience of space gives rise to semantic extensions and figurative projections onto social domains. The central thesis of the study is that urban space should be understood as a productive conceptual domain that provides imagistic and culturally grounded frameworks for interpreting non-spatial phenomena.

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