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Only 15 years ago bilingualism was somewhat outside the main debates in cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics had, to a large extent, taken for granted the fact that language is embodied in our experience. However, not much attention was given to questions of whether any changes to our language repertoire alter the way we perceive the world around us. A growing body of recent research suggests that one cannot understand the cognitive foundations of language without looking at bi- and multilingual speakers. In this vein, the present book aims to contribute to the existing debate of the relationship between language, culture and cognition by assessing differences and similarities between monolingual and bilingual language acquisition and use. In particular, it investigates the effect of conceptual-semantic and pragmatic properties of constructions on code choice and code switching, as well as the impact of bilingual and bicultural education on speakers’ cognitive development. This collective volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of theoretical perspectives and research techniques that currently inform work across the disciplines of bilingualism and code switching.

Cognitive grammar. --- Bilingualism --- Semantics --- Psycholinguistics. --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects --- Grammaire cognitive --- Bilinguisme --- Sémantique --- Psycholinguistique --- Aspect psychologique --- Sociolinguistics --- Bilingualism/Biculturalism. --- Code Switching/Mixing. --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Language Acquisition.

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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.