emic

 
Pronunciation: /ˈiːmɪk/

adjective

Anthropology
  • studying or describing a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external scheme: accurate ethnographic description from an internal or emic perspective, from the native point of viewOften contrasted with etic.

Origin:

1950s: abstracted from such words as phonemic (see phoneme) and systemic