Talk:personal space

RFV discussion: May 2011–February 2012

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personal space

Rfv-sense: "The area in which a person or animal habitually moves, and with which they are familiar." - Sounds far-fetched to me. No evidence among first 100 Google hits. --Hekaheka 05:08, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

It's in the OED, as the earliest attested sense. They include the following citations: Ƿidsiþ 06:46, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

• 1937 D. Katz Animals & Men v. 95 From the animal's point of view the spot in which it has lived undergoes an internal structuring analogous to the structuring of the functional or ‘life’ space of man. Such an internally structured ‘life’ space we shall call ‘personal space’.
• 1946 O. Klineberg Social Psychol. viii. 213 William Stern (24) speaks of a personal space and time, differing from one individual to another. Personal space refers to the region of possible movement and contact, and will obviously be different in the case of an international banker and in that of a farmer in the hills of Kentucky.
• 1958 M. Kerr People of Ship Street ii. 24 The reason seems to be a vague undifferentiated feeling of belonging and the security of moving around in a well-known territory. This may well be an example of Katz's personal space.

The first of those is IMO a mention, and the second is a quasi-mention. RFV-failed for now. - -sche (discuss) 20:07, 5 February 2012 (UTC)