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

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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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