Kenneth L. Pike - who coined "emic" and "etic" to get at the persepectiveS any particular person may have subjective, objective, and otherwise - gave me Nagel's book to read.    From Wordnik.com.  [The View From Everywhere: Impartiality, Objectivity and Other Ideals] Reference

Taking the lead from contextual as we anthropologists say, "emic" distinctions is not a bad place to start; it's just such interplay between the particular and theory that generates new insights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Exceptionalism: A New Approach to Games] Reference

Even so, your point (and comment in general) target the tension (and there always is a tension) between what we call, in a shorthand-fashion, the "emic" and the "etic"; that is, a point of view from inside a context, and one from outside it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning, Games, and Bureaucracy] Reference

Some important terms were introduced - e.g. 'emic' and 'etic' - but not taken to enough depth in examples to drive home the deeper implications.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

Of course my criterion of judgment is emic within my system, etic with respect to theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inigo Montoya Addresses Fundamentalists] Reference

What happens when that emic view comes into conflict with the etic view is a complex issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [University pays damages to Indian tribe for alleged misuse of DNA - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Joseph Duveen lov­ed pictures and knew a lot about British art, but was not an acad­emic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Duveen, art dealer extraordinaire] Reference

January 19, 2008 at 9:21 pm slow publik trainsportayshun lyk dis now seemz to be panda-emic in ebbry big sitee.    From Wordnik.com.  [u wait all day for monorail panda - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Actually, it's very often highly creator-centric (or emic), and therefore hard to interpret if you aren't the person who's defined it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Umbrella.] Reference

It is easy to call Le Guin's writing ethnographic, given her background, but this story gets under the emic skin of the people of Omelas as it frames a view from the outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2)] Reference

Use a Parallax emic text to speech chip for wall-e's voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily DIY] Reference

Rick: "Category names are neither emic nor etic descriptions" I think technically they would be defined as etic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savage Minds] Reference

"From (as Fr. des) the deep or remote dawn" (min el fejri 'l ghemic, Syr. for emic), cf. Matthew Arnold's "Resignation;".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp] Reference

Acad - According to Garp, as Garp's traumas elicited "The emic modernists such as Robert Scholes and Tony World According to Bensenhaver"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It's interesting: anthropologists have little problem switching between indigenous (emic) concepts used by our informants, and our own analytical constructs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuroanthropology] Reference

How do emic perspectives, men's, women's, and children's different roles, statuses, and perceptions help fashion opportunities and constraints for the emergence of particular technological options?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Kathy M'Closkey's sets out to deconstruct the cultural history of Navajo weaving; provide a more emic information about the aesthetic and cultural context of Navajo weaving; and critique the art world that functions within confines that span between trading posts, auction houses, museums, art dealers, ethnographers, and historians, but overlooks the weavers and their cultural milieu.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

emic - definition of emic by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yesterday, Research, Morning Reading] Reference

It’s kind of an emic oh, the former anthro major in me dies hard signifier amongst a certain segment of people – the people who run and shop at that store, judging from the description – that creates a certain distance between what it meant there, for the people around it, and what it means here, where people tend to take a more critical stance informed by categories external to the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [“MEN ARE THE NEW WOMEN” » Sociological Images] Reference

I peed! pand-emic….    From Wordnik.com.  [daicare ur doin it kyoot! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

If they all gets a cold, itsa pand-emic!.    From Wordnik.com.  [daicare ur doin it kyoot! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference