English

Noun

phonocentrism ‎(usually uncountable, plural phonocentrisms)

1. The idea that sounds and speech are inherently superior to (or more natural than) written language.
   • 2015, Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English, Translated by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter, Columbia University Press. (p. 124)

     In other words, social Darwinism was inextricably connected to phoneticism or, more precisely, what would a century later be criticized as "phonocentrism" - an understanding of language that gives primacy to spoken language as a spontaneous expression of the human mind, thus reducing written language to the status of mere representation of spoken sounds.

See also

• logocentrism