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  2. Coercion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Coercion in the Pustejovsky framework refers to both complement coercion and aspectual coercion. Complement coercion involves a mismatch of semantic meaning between lexical items, while aspectual coercion involves a mismatch of temporality between lexical items. [4] A commonly used example of complement coercion is the sentence "I began the ...

  3. Coercion - Wikipedia

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    Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner through the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to induce a desired response.

  4. Persuasion - Wikipedia

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    Coercion is a form of persuasion that uses aggressive threats and the provocation of fear and/or shame to influence a person's behavior. [ 9 ] : 37 Systematic persuasion is the process through which attitudes or beliefs are leveraged by appeals to logic and reason.

  5. Coercion (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Coercion (linguistics), reinterpretation of a lexeme; Coercive function, mathematical function that "grows rapidly" at the extremes of the space on which it is defined; Type conversion, in programming, is changing an entity of one data type into another; Coercion Acts, Acts of the British parliament to suppress disorder, often in Ireland

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Emotionally focused therapy - Wikipedia

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    Johnson et al. (1999) conducted a meta-analysis of the four most rigorous outcome studies before 2000 and concluded that the original nine-step, three-stage emotionally focused therapy approach to couples therapy [9] had a larger effect size than any other couple intervention had achieved to date, but this meta-analysis was later harshly ...

  8. Amenable - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Amenable may refer to: Amenable group ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  9. Category:Coercion - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to coercion, compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against a party.It involves a set of forceful actions which violate the free will of an individual in order to induce a desired response.