Anthropologists use interviews and participant observation to gain an emic.
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Emic
//ˈiːmɪk//
Synonyms for "emic" (1 found)
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Closest matches (1)
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Translations
13 translations across 8 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- èmic adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
Dutch
1 entries- emisch adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
German
1 entries- emisch adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
Greek
1 entries- ημικός adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
Polish
2 entries- emiczny adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
- emiczny adj (linguistic units)
Portuguese
4 entries- émico adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
- émico adj (linguistic units)
- êmico adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
- êmico adj (linguistic units)
Spanish
2 entries- émico adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
- émico adj (linguistic units)
Swedish
1 entries- emisk adj (analyzing a culture from inside)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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