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Interpretative phenomenological analysis — (IPA) is a qualitative research method for gaining an insight into how an individual perceives a phenomenon.Using the technique, researchers gather qualitative data from the individual using one of a number of techniques such as interview or… … Wikipedia
etic — adjective Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from the perspective on one who is not a participant in that culture. A useful example of the emic etic distinction may be made by comparing the concept “waves on the ocean or sea” from the… … Wiktionary
emic — adjective Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture. A useful example of the emic etic distinction may be made by comparing the concept “waves on the ocean or sea”… … Wiktionary
Kenneth Lee Pike — Infobox Scientist name = Kenneth Lee Pike birth date = June 9 1912 birth place = Woodstock, Connecticut death date = December 31 2000 death place = residence = citizenship = nationality = American ethnicity = field = linguist work institutions =… … Wikipedia
Cultural materialism (anthropology) — Cultural materialism is an anthropological research orientation first introduced by Marvin Harris in his 1968 book The Rise of Anthropological Theory,[1] as a theoretical paradigm and research strategy. Indeed it is said to be the most enduring… … Wikipedia
Theories of religion — can be divided into substantive theories (focusing on what religion is) and functional or reductionist theories (focusing on what it does). Influential substantive theories have been proposed by Tylor and Frazer (focusing on the explanatory value … Wikipedia
Phoneme — This article is about the speech unit. For the JavaME library, see phoneME. In a language or dialect, a phoneme (from the Greek: φώνημα, phōnēma, a sound uttered ) is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts… … Wikipedia
Communicative ecology — is a conceptual model used in the field of media and communications research to analyse and represent the relationships between the social interactions, discourse, and communication media and technology of individuals, collectives and networks in … Wikipedia
Synoptic philosophy — comes from the Greek words sun optikos , (“seeing everything together,”) and together with the word philosophy, means the love of wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together. [Christian, J. L. (1998). Philosophy: An… … Wikipedia
Tagmemics — is a linguistic theory developed by Kenneth L. Pike in his book Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior , 3 vol. (1954–1960). It was primarily designed to assist linguists to efficiently extract coherent… … Wikipedia
