TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Storjohann, Petra
T1  - Dynamischer Gebrauch von Paronymen in allgemein-, fach-, wissenschafts- und bildungssprachlicher Kommunikation
JF  - Zeitschrift für angewandte Linguistik
N2  - 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.
KW  - paronyms
KW  - commonly confused words
KW  - lexical confusion
KW  - general/technical/academic usage
KW  - Paronymie
KW  - Lexikgraphie
KW  - Deutsch
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-94265
SN  - 2190-0191
SS  - 2190-0191
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2019-2018
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2019-2018
N1  - 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.
IS  - 71
SP  - 353
EP  - 383
PB  - de Gruyter Mouton
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
ER  -