phonocentrism

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

phono- +‎ centrism

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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