Iconicity by blending

Turner, Mark

doi:10.1075/ill.12.04tur

In:Iconic Investigations
Edited by Lars Elleström, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg
[Iconicity in Language and Literature 12] 2013
► pp. 13–24

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Iconicity by blending

Mark Turner | Case Western Reserve University

Published online: 28 March 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/ill.12.04tur

The role of blending in iconicity is often unmistakable. More subtly, blending is usually in the first instance the generator of the seemingly basic similarity of form and meaning that makes the perception of iconicity possible.

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