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EMIQUE [2 records]

Record 1 1984-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
DEF

(derivation: phonemic) of, relating to, or having characteristics which are significant to the structure of a language or other behavioral system (Addenda du Webster's, édition 1981)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
OBS

Les comportements verbaux sont décrits en termes de fonctions. Dans la théorie tagménique de K.L. Pike et de JOHN ALGOE, on a établi, à partir de l'opposition : PHONÉMIQUE-PHONÉTIQUE, une opposition ÉMIQUE-ÉTIQUE. Dans une analyse étique, les comportements verbaux sont décrits en termes de distribution, selon des critères spatio-temporels.

Spanish

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Record 2 1982-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
DEF

... a variety of theoretical field approaches in anthropology concerned with the inside or native view of a culture. The subjects one is studying have their own categories, assumptions about these categories, taxonomies and partwhole systems in terms of which they logically relate these categories to each other, as well as values concerning items classified according to these categories.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

... façon de décrire une culture telle que ses membres la voient; les ethnographes tentent d'y parvenir par une technique compliquée dite d'analyse componentielle des composants, qui permettrait de repérer le fait culturel à travers ce que dit l'informateur.

Spanish

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