emic
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
Definition of emic
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.
“In contemporary Anglophone usage, the term 'dhow' has come to refer generically and exonymically to traditional wooden vessels of the western Indian Ocean, whatever their particular forms or emic classification.”
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Etymology
Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonemic. * Kenneth Lee Pike (1982), Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics, page 44: “Generalizing from phonemics, I coined the term emic in 1954.”
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3 extensions · 2 front · 1 back
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