etic

Meaning

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

Translations

etisch

etisch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛtɪk/

Etymology

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 […]”