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Dynamischer Gebrauch von Paronymen in allgemein-, fach-, wissenschafts- und bildungssprachlicher Kommunikation

  • This paper focuses on easily confused items (so-called paronyms) in German in terms of their general, technical or academic contextual uses. It outlines the semantic discrepancies between contextual usages of pairs such as Methode/Methodologie/Methodik and unehelich/nichtehelich/außerehelich depending on their linguistic registers and varieties. While previous studies lack empirical evidence and primarily operate with morphological criteria (cf. Lăzărescu 1999) the descriptions here derive from corpus-based examinations of general written and of technical discourse. It is shown that causes of lexical confusion arise from formal, phonetic resemblances or semantic similarities, regular co-occurrence, incorrect morphological analogies and political governance of language. Context, knowledge, associations and experience determine the choice of lexical terms. Speakers need to apply linguistic and extra-linguistic principles in order to create adequate contexts. With the help of paronym examples and corpus data, these will be elucidated in more detail.

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Author:Petra Storjohann
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-94265
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2019-2018
ISSN:2190-0191
Parent Title (German):Zeitschrift für angewandte Linguistik
Publisher:de Gruyter Mouton
Place of publication:Berlin [u.a.]
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Year of first Publication:2019
Date of Publication (online):2019/12/03
Publicationstate:Zweitveröffentlichung
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:commonly confused words; general/technical/academic usage; lexical confusion; paronyms
GND Keyword:Deutsch; Lexikgraphie; Paronymie
Issue:71
First Page:353
Last Page:383
Note:
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.

This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch
Open Access?:ja
Leibniz-Classification:Sprache, Linguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Lexikologie / Etymologie
Program areas:Lexik
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt