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the belief that sounds and speech are inherently superior to, or more primary than, written language

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phonocentrism

According to Derrida, Western philosophy has always privileged speech over writing, and he calls this engrained preference 'phonocentrism'.

—p.102 Postmodernist Metafiction: John Barth (88) by Allard Pieter den Dulk

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