Kenneth pike book on etic and emic?

Question

does anyone know the title of keneth pike's book dealing with phonetic/phonemic and etic/emic. somenone is asking me some questions about etic/emic and i want to find a copy so that i can properly answer her questions.

Answer 1

This one of the key books by Kenneth Pike:

[1954, 1955, 1960] 1967. Here he first stated the distinction between etic and emic:

Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior. 2nd ed. The Hague: Mouton. (First edition in three volumes, 1954, 1955, 1960.)

Answer 2

I don't know the book that you are asking for but there are some online sources that might clarify the distinction for you.  Here are some links:

This one is about Kenneth's perspectives:

http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~kitchen...

Others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_et...

http://www2.eou.edu/~kdahl/emicdef.html

http://faculty.ircc.edu/faculty/jlett/Ar...

http://www.sil.org/~headlandt/eticemic.h...

Enjoy!