English Explanatory Dictionary

emic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.

Pronunciation

/ˈiːmɪk/

Word forms

emic more emic most emic

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.”

Derived words

emically emicness
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