etic

Pronunciation: /ˈɛtɪk/

The English word “etic” has 1 meaning listed here.

adjective

Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside that culture.

Etymology

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 […]”

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