Kenneth Lee Pike (Books)

Kenneth Lee Pike Books

Kenneth Lee Pike was an American linguist and anthropologist renowned as the originator of tagmemic theory and the coiner of the terms "emic" and "etic." His work delved into the fundamental structures of language and their comprehension across diverse cultural contexts. He was also a pioneer in translation pedagogy and the development of constructed languages to facilitate this understanding. His contributions significantly impacted linguistics and anthropology through their emphasis on the practical applications of language study.

Talk, Thought, and Thing

The Emic Road Toward Conscious Knowledge

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Pike addresses the current changing world, in which men are slipping their intellectual moorings. His first presupposition is the fundamental fact of human language. Another is the importance of the emic principle in understanding reality. In stating this principle, Pike says that persons understand persons, things, and events in relation to occurrence in structure, to class membership, and to social, physical, economic, psychological, and historical function and in relation to the control their frames of reference have over them. Two books about Dr Ken Pike and his work are Ken Scholar and Christian and Language and Essays in Memory of Kenneth L. Pike . SIL International, the linguistic organization, which grew under his leadership as its first President (1942-1979) and then President Emeritus (1979-2000). Preface ConclusionBibliography