Definitions For Emic

Adjective

(social science) Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.

Coordinate terms

etic

Translations

Dutch: emisch German: emisch

Etymology

{{coin, en, nat=American, occ=linguist, Kenneth Pike, in=1954}} from phonemic. 1982, Kenneth Lee Pike, Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics, page 44: : Generalizing from phonemics, I coined the term emic in 1954.

Anagrams

ICEM, ICME, cemi, mice