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  • noun The idea that sounds and speech are inherently superior to (or more natural than) written language.

Etymologies

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phono- +‎ centrism

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Examples

  • a pan-euphonic suffusion: a kind of phonocentrism writ large.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • He uses Derrida's suspicion of Western phonocentrism and priviledging of the spoken word over the written word which has led to our multiplying narrators in the Tales: thus, we trust a narrator more because he is speaking, rather than allowing ourselves to trust the textuality of the poem.

    A.C. Spearing, Textual Subjectivity (OUP, 2005) Miglior acque 2006

  • He uses Derrida's suspicion of Western phonocentrism and priviledging of the spoken word over the written word which has led to our multiplying narrators in the Tales: thus, we trust a narrator more because he is speaking, rather than allowing ourselves to trust the textuality of the poem.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Miglior acque 2006

  • Voice in Taylor, then, is not to be thought of as beckoning towards phonocentrism (Derrida, Speech and Phenomena).

    'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

  • “flattening” or “bi-univocalization”: two chains are lined up, one to one, the written and the spoken (205-6; cf. Derrida's notion of “phonocentrism”).

    Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008

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