Open AccessLa concettualizzazione del verbo ‘mettere’ in italiano
Author(s) -
Aleksandra Paliczuk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-088X
pISSN - 0208-5550
DOI - 10.31261/neo.2021.33.02
Subject(s) - conceptualization , linguistics , cognitive linguistics , meaning (existential) , variety (cybernetics) , cognitive grammar , grammar , verb , semantics (computer science) , space (punctuation) , cognition , psychology , sociology , philosophy , computer science , epistemology , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , programming language
The conceptualization of space is manifested in language through diverse linguistic structures. Space, one of the most significant analytical categories not only in linguistics, introduces a variety of senses and conceptual relations in the construction of communicative meaning. While there are several approaches to linguistic studies, the most obvious choice for this type of analysis seems to be Cognitive Linguistics, with some of its theoretical currents and the Cognitive Grammar of Ronald W. Langacker (1987, 1991a, 1991b, 1995, 2008) in particular. In his works, Langacker often refers to spatial and visual relationships that provide useful illustrations to depict different conceptual structures and relationships. Indeed, the relations between visual perception and conceptualization concerns numerous aspects of the semantics of natural language (E. Tabakowska, 1999: 59). The paper aims to analyse the concept of the Italian verb ‘mettere’ (‘to put’), apparently simple and yet, as it will be shown, rich and varied in meaning.