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Sprachraum
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English
Etymology
en de Sprachraum.
Noun
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en linguistics Language area, language zone; geographical region where a language is spoken
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 Publishing Company, page 263:
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.
en 2011 Srdjan Vucetic The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations http://books.google.com/books?id=C8ck9EopxbkC&pg=PA147&dq=%22Sprachraum%22#v=onepage 147 Stanford University Press The networked world is typically envisioned as a globe-spanning English Sprachraum.
en 2013 Don Ringe; Joseph F. Eska Historical Linguistics: Toward a Twenty-First Century Reintegration http://books.google.com/books?id=BhnJrYF4UNgC&pg=PA101&dq=%22Sprachraum%22#v=onepage 100–101 Cambridge University Press ; in addition, there is an area along the southeastern border of the Dutch Sprachraum that exhibited the same peculiarity (ibid. pp. 12–13).
en psycholinguistics the en repertoire of en language available to a given person
en 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 http://books.google.com/books?id=g9sQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA287&dq=%22Sprachraum%22#search_anchor 287 as an expansion of the language space, the Sprachraum. The language space of a child expands as his object relationships develop.
en 1988 Achim Eschbach Karl Bühler’s Theory of Language http://books.google.com/books?id=5n2LlGgUc4AC&pg=PA7&dq=%22Sprachraum%22#v=onepage 6–7 John Benjamins Publishing Company 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.
en 1989 Rudol Ekstein The Language of Psychotherapy http://books.google.com/books?id=aeRLII-zLbUC&pg=PA280&dq=%22Sprachraum%22#v=onepage 280 John Benjamins Publishing Company Many patients have very little Sprachraum, very little capacity for the use of language to expresss their thoughts or perhaps to disguise their thoughts.
Translations
geographical region where a language is spoken
Dutch: nl taalgebied n
French: fr zone linguistique f
German: de Sprachraum m
Polish: pl obszar językowy m-in
Russian: ru языково́е простра́нство n, ru шпра́храум m, ru шпрахра́ум m
German
Etymology
de :af Sprache Raum
de Sprache Raum
Pronunciation
de /ˈʃpʁaːxˌʁaʊ̯m/
de De-Sprachraum.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Sprach raum
Noun
m,(e)s,^e
de linguistics Sprachraum, language area, language zone; geographical region in which a language is spoken
de Sprachgebiet
Declension
m,(e)s,^e
Descendants
en 1 Sprachraum
en 1 language area
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