Everyday speech collapses sound into noise because sonic context is devalued

Evidence

Noise is a common word in modern life and has been substituted for the generic term sound. Such substitution is largely because of the scant interest that human society has reserved for the sonic context. The patchy distribution of the sonic environment creates sonotopes with variable noise conditions, which determines the final distribution of vocal species according to their level of tolerance and adaptive plasticity. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 1520

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the semantic drift whereby ‘noise’ displaced ‘sound’ as the generic term, tying linguistic practice to cultural neglect of acoustic context.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Soundscape Ethnography thread on how everyday language and cultural attention shape what sonic environments are noticed. — connects to: Noise means unused sound that degrades communication across media — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1227