单词 | etic |
释义 | eticadj.n. Cultural Anthropology and Social Sciences. A. adj. Designating a generalized, non-structural, objective approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture, typically by an outsider; of, relating to, or involving such an approach. Contrasted with emic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [adjective] > structuralism > not or prior to etic1954 pre-structuralist1954 1954 K. L. Pike Lang. in Rel. Human Behavior i. ii. 8/1 In..the etic approach to the data, an author is primarily concerned with generalized statements about the data. 1975 K. H. Basso & N. Anderson in M. D. Kinkade et al. Linguistics & Anthropol. 30 Studies of American Indian writing systems contain so few emic analyses that the basic materials needed to construct adequate etic typologies are all but absent. 1987 M. Harris in M. Harris & E. B. Ross Food & Evol. ii. 67 No attempt was made to check the correspondence between emic responses and etic observations. 2008 S. Nanda & R. L. Warms Culture Counts i. 8 An etic ethnography describes and analyzes culture according to principles and theories drawn from Western scientific tradition. B. n. With the. An etic viewpoint, approach, or analysis. Contrasted with emic n. Additions Cf. etics n. ΚΠ 1970 R. S. Meyerstein Functional Load i. 52 At this point, the distinction between the emic and the etic is a strictly taxonomic one, and of importance to respective status in the etic-emic classification as a whole. 1975 B. Peabody Winged World 288 The present study..is more concerned with the ‘emic’ than the ‘etic’. 1993 D. Booth in F. J. Schuurman Beyond Impasse ii. 64 The mutual indispensability of the ‘emic’ (description of cultural meanings) and the ‘etic’ (observation of behaviour) is well trodden terrain. 2007 N. Small et al. Living & Dying with Dementia v. 132 For Foucault neither the etic or the emic exist outside of the power structures of the prevailing discourse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : -eticsuffix < adj.n.1954 see also |
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