phonocentrism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The idea that sounds and speech are inherently superior to (or more natural than) written language.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."