https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2025.13.1.06
The purpose of this paper is to briefly analyze the conceptualisation of the notion [I] being a sub-notion of [SELF] among the English, Polish and Italian societies. In this paper, the author refers to cognitive linguistics; in particular the principles of R. Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar and the imagery process. His main objective is to verify conceptualization processes behind the aforementioned notion, focusing on the imagery of the scene of particular linguistic expressions as well as on image schemata and conceptual metaphors thereof. In order to perform such a goal, examples depicting the [I] notion at the superficial linguistic level will be analysed, especially in terms of different types of personal pronouns. Based on that, the differences between examples and ways of presenting the notions in English, Polish and Italian will be analyzed. Preliminary analysis has shown factual differences in how [I] is realised not only on the linguistic level, but also on the conceptual one, as the latter determines how we perceive and function in the extralinguistic world. Potential sources of these differences, which can constitute a starting point for further analyses, has also been described.
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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-06-30
10.31261/FL
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