etic

See also: ètic and -etic

English

Etymology

Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonetic.

• 1962, Kenneth Lee Pike, 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 […]

Adjective

etic (comparative more etic, superlative most etic)

1. (social sciences) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
   • 1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention

     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.

Coordinate terms

• emic

Derived terms

• etically

Translations

analyzing a culture from outside

• Dutch: etisch
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: etisch (de)

Anagrams

• CETI, EITC, Tice, cite, tice

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Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan. Cognate with Hopi putu (“heavy”) and O'odham we:c.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /etiːk/

Adjective

etic

1. heavy

References

• Andrews, J. Richard. (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Revised Edition, University of Oklahoma Press, page 208.
• Karttunen, Frances. (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, University of Texas Press, page 10.
• Lockhart, James. (2001) Nahuatl as Written, Stanford University Press, page 210.