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logocentrism

Noun

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logocentrism (countable and uncountable, plural logocentrisms)

The analysis of literature, focusing on the words and grammar to the exclusion of context or literary merit.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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This "logocentrism," Derrida argues, creates "marked" or hierarchized binary oppositions that have an effect on everything from our conception of speech's relation to writing to our understanding of racial difference. Source: Internet

It is this questioned effect that I have elsewhere called logocentrism. Source: Internet

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