Meaning of emicness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or degree of being emic.

uncountable

Examples

“Then there is the factor of frequency — not the sole factor for arriving at load⟳ determinations, but one factor nevertheless. Immense for French 'word'-final stress⟳, it is fairly low for English /h/ or /ŋ/ yet high for either of those units in comparison with the frequency of /ž/. Again, emicness is not the decisive issue⟳.”

“Quine (in Shahan and Merrill 1977¹⁸¹, and see⟳ III, above) in dealing with 'observation sentences' (e.g. in pointing at things) is touching implicitly on the emicness of insider viewpoints, when he says that 'The main thing to settle⟳, in the way of fixing objects, is their individuation: we have⟳ to fix⟳ standards of sameness and difference.' For tagmemics, emic sameness is relative to the insider viewpoint.”

“This is true even when the inquiry deals with phenomena that have⟳ been initially emically defined (though the degree of emicness or eticness will have⟳ to be qualified).”

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