Metaphorically motivated new English blends
Metaphorically motivated new English blends The article is devoted to the semantics of metaphorically motivated new blends that appeared in English in the early twenty-first century. The research focuses on their meaning, cognitive properties, and use in a context. The paper presents the metaphoric motivation of blends in its combination with such stylistic devices as metonymy, allusion, hyperbole, oxymoron, and irony. The connotative meaning of the new blends is analysed in view of their semantic potential and thematic representation.