audiocentric
audiocentric adjective: centred or focusing on sound and hearing (often to the detriment of deaf individuals).
Adjective
audiocentric (comparative more audiocentric, superlative most audiocentric)
- Centred or focusing on sound and hearing (often to the detriment of deaf individuals).
- Audism inhibits cultural democracy and without cultural democracy there can be no political democracy. Educators must recognize the audiocentric assumptions and attitudes, the social problem, and the social injustices that the term audism describes. Transformative and civic engagement begins with...2013 May, Richard Clark Eckert, Amy June Rowley, “Audism: A Theory and Practice of Audiocentric Privilege”, in Humanity & Society, volume 37, number 2, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: SAGE Publishing, →DOI...
- Also, Jay shows that a straightforward transformation from audiocentric medieval European culture to ocularcentric modernity is a massive simplification.2014, Anastasia Valassopoulos, editor, Arab Cultural Studies: History, Politics and the Popular, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 60
Forms of audiocentric
| comparative | more audiocentric |
|---|---|
| superlative | most audiocentric |
Origin of audiocentric
From audio + -centric.
Questions about audiocentric
- What does audiocentric mean?
- Audiocentric means centred or focusing on sound and hearing (often to the detriment of deaf individuals).
- What part of speech is audiocentric?
- Audiocentric is an adjective.
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