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Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to written language, which it conceives as necessarily corrupting the original Subject__he center of meaning.
Minae Mizumura The Fall of Language in the Age of English
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Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to written language, which it conceives as necessarily corrupting the original Subject__he center of meaning.
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Minae Mizumura

The Fall of Language in the Age of English

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