Linguistic meaning is generated by the mind and can be expressed in multiple languages. One may assume that equivalent texts/utterances in two languages by means of translation generate equivalent meanings in their readers/hearers. This follows if we assume that meaning calculated from the linguistic input is solely objective in nature. However, research in language and cognition is building up to show otherwise. Meaning calculated from semiotic input is not objective but is influenced by and grounded in experience of the language acquisition process and the habitual interaction of the speaker with the referents of linguistic content. In this dissertation, I address a phenomenon that exposes the subjectivity of meaning called the Foreign Language Effect. The Foreign Language Effect refers to the finding that late bilinguals exhibit different decision-making patterns when language content of emotional nature is presented to them in their native (L1) versus non-native (L2) language. I adopt Pavlenko's (2012) account of the Foreign Language Effect. She hypothesizes that the different decision-making patterns reflect a difference in how language is processed in L1 versus L2, where L1 processing is embodied and L2 processing is disembodied. I inspect this proposal by constructing a semantic representation of embodied language processing through unifying two theories: The Embodied Simulation Hypothesis (Bergen, 2015a ; 2015b ) and Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1976). The integration results in a cognitive model of meaning simulation: the Embodied Simulation Frame Semantic blueprint model (ES-FS blueprint). I implement this model as an algorithm that calculates a Frame Semantic information structure to serve as a representation of embodied meaning simulation and to characterize the organization of semantic memory with an embodied and grounded lens. The ES-FS blueprint model serves as an information structure blueprint of the embodied simulation. The blueprint is composed of frames retrieved from the implementation of Frame Semantics as FrameNet. This is a network of background knowledge concepts (Ruppenhofer et al., 2016) structured as connected frame nodes which depict total experiential situations and which are indexed by lexical units. I test my model on empirical data from a semantic priming mega study called the Semantic Priming Project (Hutchison et al., 2013) in L1 English and find support for it in the L1. I then run a semantic priming experiment on L1 and L2 speakers of English to conduct a comparison of meaning processing across the two nativeness conditions. I provide preliminary empirical support to Pavlenko's (2012) account for the Foreign Language Effect with my ES-FS blueprint model based on Frame Semantics' grounding meaning in experience. Such an experience is a major factor of difference in a late bilingual's language acquisition and contexts of use between the L1 and the L2. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]