Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In cognitive linguistics, iconicity is the conceived similarity between a form of language and its meaning. Iconic principles: Quantity principle: formal complexity corresponds to conceptual complexity Proximity principle: conceptual distance tends to match with linguistic distance Sequential order principle: the sequential order of events described is mirrored in the speech chain Iconic coding principles are natural tendencies in language and are also part of our cognitive and biological make-up. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.