{"id":522,"date":"2013-12-12T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T09:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=522"},"modified":"2013-12-16T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:46:40","slug":"does-speaking-german-change-how-i-see-social-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Does speaking German change how I see social relationships?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-image-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/full-width\/images\/2013\/12\/blogs\/prospero\/20131214_bkp502.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2013\/12\/formality-language\">LAST week\u2019s column<\/a> was about the languages that have both formal and informal pronouns for <em>you<\/em>. It seems that, at least in the European languages, the informal pronouns are ascendant.<\/p>\n<p>But they are a far from gone, and their persistence brings to mind another topic. That is the idea that languages shape thought in profound ways, a topic that Johnson has looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2013\/11\/multilingualism\">before<\/a>. In some languages, literally every time you say <em>you<\/em>, you have to express how you see the relationship between you and the other person. Is that person a friend, family member or child? Or, rather, a colleague, boss, old person, telemarketer or simply someone you don\u2019t feel close to? The word depends on the relationship.<\/p>\n<p>So do these languages force their speakers to pay more attention to social relationships? The idea is popular, but controversial among linguists and psychologists.<\/p>\n<p>One argument for the&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2013\/12\/language-and-thought?fsrc=rss\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>from Prospero http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2013\/12\/language-and-thought?fsrc=rss<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&amp;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAST week\u2019s column was about the languages that have both formal and informal pronouns for you. It seems that, at least in the European languages, the informal pronouns are ascendant. But they are a far from gone, and their persistence brings to mind another topic. That is the idea that languages shape thought in profound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[84],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}