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In what ways are language, cognition and perception interrelated? Do they influence each other? This book casts a fresh light on these questions by putting individual speakers' cognitive contexts, i.e. their usage-preferences and entrenched patterns of linguistic knowledge, into the focus of investigation. It presents findings from original experimental research on spatial language use which indicate that these individual-specific factors indeed play a central role in determining whether or not differences in the current and/or habitual linguistic behaviour of speakers of German and English are systematically correlated with differences in non-linguistic behaviour (visual attention allocation to and memory for spatial referent scenes).These findings form the basis of a new, speaker-focused usage-based model of linguistic relativity, which defines language-perception/cognition effects as a phenomenon which primarily occurs within individual speakers rather than between speakers or speech communities.

Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- Cognition. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Language and culture. --- Psycholinguistics. --- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Sapir-Whorf, Hypothèse de --- Grammaire cognitive --- Cognition --- Langage et culture --- Psycholinguistique --- Actes de parole --- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis --- Cognitive grammar --- Language and culture --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Relativity (Linguistics) --- Whorf-Sapir hypothesis --- Anthropological linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Philosophy --- Psychological aspects --- E-books --- Eye-Tracking. --- Linguistic Relativity. --- Socio-Cognitive Linguistics. --- Spatial Language.