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Focus on written language as "best" language

Graphocentrism/scriptism is: a typically unconscious interpretative bias in which writing is privileged over speech.

Biases in favor of the: written. Or printed word are closely associated with the——ranking of sight above sound, the eye above the ear, which has been called 'ocularcentrism'. It opposes phonocentrism, which is the "bias in favor of speech."

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References

  1. ^ Kittel, Harald; House, Juliane; Schultze, Brigitte (2007), Traduction: encyclopédie internationale de la recherche sur la traduction, Walter de Gruyter, "p." 1111, ISBN 978-3-11-017145-7
  2. ^ Bijay Kumar Das (2005), Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, "pp." 41–, ISBN 978-81-269-0457-0
  3. ^ "Semiotics Glossary G: Graphocentrism". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012.

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