etic

See also: ètic and -etic

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Emic and etic

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Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonetic.

Kenneth Lee Pike (1962) With Heart and Mind: A Personal Synthesis of Scholarship and Devotion, page 37: “I have coined the term etic to refer to the detached observer’s view […]”

etic (comparative more etic, superlative most etic)

(social sciences, anthropology) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
- 1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention:
  A useful example of the emic-etic distinction may be made by comparing the concept “waves on the ocean or sea” from the perspective of a European American with that of a Truk Islander […] The proposed etics here might be that both cultures understand the use of waves as vehicles for surfing and as movement reflecting the transfer of energy […] certain differences, or emics exist, for European Americans the waves may be sources of beauty — the Truk Islander has learned to use them […] as a road map.

analyzing a culture from outside

etic

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan. Cognate with Hopi putu (“heavy”) and O'odham we:c.

etic

Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, page 208.
Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, page 10.
Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, page 210.

etic m or n (feminine singular etică, masculine plural etici, feminine and neuter plural etice)

		masculine	feminine	masculine	neuter
		singular		plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	etic	etică	etici	etice
nominative- accusative	definite	eticul	etica	eticii	eticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	etic	etice	etici	etice
genitive- dative	definite	eticului	eticei	eticilor	eticelor