Phonocentrism is the tendency to privilege spoken language, in other words, to make this form of language central, and in other forms (specifically written language or the language of inscriptions) to be marginalized or pushed into peripheral research.
This dentition is associated with Jacques Derrida and his metaphysics of presence because the illusion of immediacy (speakers to be fully presented to each other, as well as the objects they speak of) is supported by just such a privilege of speech.
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