Meaning of Sprachraum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Language area, language zone; geographical region where a language is spoken
2. the repertoire of language available to a given person

Equivalents

Examples

“The Arabic Sprachraum is roughly co-extensive with a geographical continuum stretching from the Arabian peninsula and the lands adjoining the Fertile Crescent to Morocco and from S.E. Anatolia to Sudan.”

“The networked world is typically envisioned as a globe-spanning English Sprachraum.”

“[…]; in addition, there is an area along the southeastern border of the Dutch Sprachraum that exhibited the same peculiarity (ibid. pp. 12–13).”

“[…] as an expansion of the language space, the Sprachraum. The language space of a child expands as his object relationships develop.”

“As one works with different categories of patients, one discovers that each of them can be described in terms of the Sprachraum, the language space they have mastered and use in order to communicate with us, appeal to us, struggle with us, oppose us, resist us, and search for attachment of which they may well be afraid and must avoid.”

“Many patients have very little Sprachraum, very little capacity for the use of language to expresss ^([sic]) their thoughts or perhaps to disguise their thoughts.”

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