EVIDENCEFOR LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introductory Comments -- 1. Characterizing linguistic relativity -- 2. Empirical evaluations of linguistic relativity -- 3. Evidence from language structure: Production, interpretation, and change -- 4. Evidence beyond language structure: Cognition, discourse, and culture -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Evidencefrom Language: Production, Interpretation, and Change -- Linguistic Relativity in Speech Perception An Overview of the Influence of Language Experience on the Perception of Speech Sounds from Infancy to Adulthood -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Effects of specific language experience on speech perception in monolingual adults -- 3. The ontogeny of language-specific speech perception -- 4. Malleability of native-language perceptual patterns -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Equivalence and Mismatch of Semantic Features Collocations in English, Spanish and Dutch -- 1. Introduction and outline -- 2. Qualia structure -- 3. Body-part nouns and their use in collocations -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Dictionaries -- Can Grammar Make You Feel Different? -- 1. Introduction: The grammar and concepts of emotions -- 2. The Italian-American comparison -- 3. A comparison of Greek and American speakers -- 4. General discussion of results -- References -- Semantic Change as Linguistic Interpretation of the World -- 1. Introduction: On the relationship between language and cognition -- 2. Semantic structure and cognition -- 3. Semantic change as a manifestation of the cognitive function of language -- 4. The relationship between semantic change and cognitive mechanisms of the mind -- 5. Linguistic relativity in semantic change -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References.

(Micro-)Categorization, Semantic Change,and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantic change over stable categories -- 3. Semantic stability over changing categories -- 4. Words and categories co-evolve -- 5. Micro-categories and specialization -- 6. Conclusions -- Note -- References -- Part 2 Evidence beyond Language: Cognition, Discourse, and Culture -- Verbalized Events A Dynamic Approach to Linguistic Relativity and Determinism1 -- 1. Thinking for speaking -- 2. Lexicalization of motion events -- 3. Thinking for speaking: Motion events in picture-elicited narrative -- 4. Thinking for writing (and reading): Motion events in creative fiction -- 5. Thinking for talking (and listening): Motion events inconversation -- 6. Thinking for translating: Moving motion events from one language type to the other -- 7. Listening/reading for remembering -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Literary Works -- Universal Ontological Knowledge and a Bias toward Language-Specific Categories in the Construal of Individuation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Empirical tests -- 3. Discussion and conclusion -- Note -- References -- Grammar and Social Practice On the Role of 'Culture' in Linguistic Relativity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic relativity and 'culture' -- 3. Grammars of space: 'geographic coordinates' vs. 'geometric bodies' -- 4. The grammar of space and sociocultural practice -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- "S'Engager" vs. "To Show Restraint" Linguistic and Cultural Relativity in Discourse Management1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. "S'engager" -- 4. "To show restraint" -- 5. Further proof -- 6. Conclusion: linguistic and cultural relativity -- Notes -- References -- Grammar and the Cult of the Virgin A Case Study of Polish Religious Discourse1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Subject matter.

3. Analysis -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index -- Language Index.