relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external scheme 位的,音位学的。 常与 etic 相对
plural noun
(emics)[treated as sing.]study adopting this approach 音位学
语源
1950s: abstracted from such words as phonemic (see phoneme) and systemic