Coercion (linguistics) 1971206 167000467 2007-10-25T15:38:10Z 145.99.239.173 not the right active zone article. The linguistic sense doesn't have a wikipedia article yet. (the other links in that list are fuzzy too, really) In [[linguistics]], '''coercion''' is when the [[grammar|grammatical]] context causes the language-user to reinterpret all or parts of the semantic and/or formal features of a [[lexeme]] that appears in it. Coercion is closely related to the notions of active zone, [[construal]]/[[conceptualization]], and [[syntactic]] [[accommodation]] known from various schools within the [[cognitive linguistics]] movement. {{ling-stub}}