Emic Definition
ēmĭk
adjective
Of or relating to phenomena considered as meaningful structural units within a system such as a language or culture.
American Heritage
Origin of Emic
1982, Kenneth Lee Pike, Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics"Ž, page 44
From Wiktionary
From (phon)emic
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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