Synonyme in Lexikon und Text. Eine metalexikografische und korpuslinguistische Analyse am Beispiel der Derivate Stimulation und Stimulierung

This article deals with the derivatives Stimulation and Stimulierung from the perspective of synonymy. On the one hand, the lexicographic representation of their meaning in selected monolingual dictionaries is compared, and on the other hand, the derivatives are analysed and quantified from the point of view of their occurrence and co-occurrence in various language corpora, focusing on their use as competitive forms and their contextual features. This is done using metalexicographic and corpus linguistic methods. The question is examined to what extent both derivatives can substitute for each other in different contexts and whether the information given in the dictionaries examined corresponds to the actual usage.