Sprachraum

Noun

Sprachraum

1. Language area, language zone; geographical region where a language is spoken
   • 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.a. 2011, Alexander Borg, Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic in 2011, Robert E. Maclaury, Galina V. Paramei, Don Dedrick, Anthropology of Color, John Benjamins...
   • The networked world is typically envisioned as a globe-spanning English Sprachraum.2011, Srdjan Vucetic, The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations, Stanford University Press, page 147
2. the repertoire of language available to a given person
   • […] as an expansion of the language space, the Sprachraum. The language space of a child expands as his object relationships develop.1976, In search of love and competence: twenty-five years of service, training, and research at the Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, Reiss-Davis Child Study Center, page 287
   • 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...1988, Achim Eschbach, Karl Bühler’s Theory of Language, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 6–7