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et·ic  (tk)
adj.
Of or relating to features or items analyzed without considering their role as a structural unit in a system, as in behavioral science or linguistics.

[From (phon)etic.]


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While lip service is paid to the concepts of emic and etic, she makes no attempt to produce an adequate set of derived etic descriptions.
The great value in this study stems from the fact that the author leaves no perspective out of the presentation and analysis of the data he amassed, including emic and etic, and the fact that he is very careful theoretically, employing an inductive approach in which generalizations regarding reasons for conversion to one or another sect apparently emerge from the data rather than exert control over it.
Although many studies evaluate the process and meaning of change in African art, they mostly do this from the perspective of etic change, which documents the insertion of these objects into the frameworks of Western discourses and inscriptions.
 
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