Graphocentrism

{{Short description|Focus on written language as "best" language}}

Graphocentrism or scriptism is a typically unconscious interpretative bias in which writing is privileged over speech.{{citation|last1=Kittel|first1=Harald|last2=House|first2=Juliane|last3=Schultze|first3=Brigitte|title=Traduction: encyclopédie internationale de la recherche sur la traduction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oD0dBqGDNscC&pg=PA1111|year=2007|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-017145-7|page=1111}}{{citation|author=Bijay Kumar Das|title=Twentieth Century Literary Criticism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P8mY0zOr904C&pg=PA41|year=2005|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-269-0457-0|pages=41–}}

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'.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426064050/http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~blue/xhx/books/semiotics/glossaryG/section21/main.html|title=Semiotics Glossary G: Graphocentrism|archivedate=26 April 2012|url=http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~blue/xhx/books/semiotics/glossaryG/section21/main.html}} It opposes phonocentrism, which is the bias in favor of speech.