eticness
English
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editeticness (uncountable)
- The state or degree of being etic.
- Synonym: eticity
- 1990, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Princeton Paperbacks)[2], 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).
- 1997, Juliane House, Translation Quality Assessment: A Model Revisited (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik), Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, page 135:
- Linguistically this is achieved through many instances of directly involving the readers via the easily digestible form of a personal narrative (elliptical and coordinate structures, emphatic and emotive lexical items, eticness of text, rhetorical questions and frequent switch between declarative, interrogative and imperative structures.