etic

a. [语]非位的, 素的,语音学的

发音

/ˈɛtɪk/

词形变化

more etic 比较级 most etic 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

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

词源

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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