Dictionary

etic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛtɪk/

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 […]”

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside that culture.
   • 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. 1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention:

Forms

Coordinates

emic

Deriveds

etically · eticness

Translations (7)

nl etisch (analyzing a culture from outside) · ca ètic (analyzing a culture from outside) · el ητικός (analyzing a culture from outside) · pl etyczny (analyzing a culture from outside) · cy etig (analyzing a culture from outside) · de etisch (analyzing a culture from outside) · es ético (analyzing a culture from outside)