emicness

English

Etymology

emic +‎ -ness

Noun

emicness (uncountable)

1. The state or degree of being emic.

   Synonym: emicity

   • 1970, R.S. Meyerstein, edited by C.H. Van Schooneveld, Functional Load: Descriptive Limitations, Alternatives of Assessment, and Extensions of Application (Janua Linguarum (Series Minor))‎^[1], volume 99, Mouton, page 52:

     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.

   • 1985, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, edited by Robert A. Hall Jr, The Eleventh LACUS Forum, 1984 (1975-78: Congress series)‎^[2], Hornbeam Press, page 43:

     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.

   • 1990, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Princeton Paperbacks)‎^[3], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 62:

     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).

Coordinate terms

• eticness