etic
Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
- 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...
Coordinate Terms: emic
Origin
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 […]”