Editing Bracket (section)

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A [[Parenthesis (rhetoric)|parenthesis in rhetoric]] and [[linguistics]] refers to the entire bracketed text, not just to the enclosing marks used (so all the text in this set of round brackets may be described as "a parenthesis").<ref>{{cite dictionary |entry=Parenthesis |dictionary=The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar |edition=2 |date=2014 |first=Bas |last=Aarts |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-191-74444-0}}</ref> Taking as an example the sentence "Mrs. Pennyfarthing (What? Yes, that was her name!) was my landlady.", the explanatory phrase between the parentheses is itself called a parenthesis. Again, the parenthesis implies that the meaning and flow of the bracketed phrase is supplemental to the rest of the text and the whole would be unchanged were the parenthesized sentences removed. The term refers to the syntax rather than the enclosure method: the same clause in the form "Mrs. Pennyfarthing{{snd}}What? Yes, that was her name!{{snd}}was my landlady" is also a parenthesis.<ref>{{cite dictionary |entry=Parenthesis |dictionary=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics |edition=3 |date=2014 |first=P. H. |last=Matthews |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-191-75306-0}}</ref> (In non-specialist usage, the term "parenthetical phrase" is more widely understood.<ref>{{cite dictionary |entry=parenthetical |entry-url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parenthetical |title=The Free Online Dictionary |access-date=13 February 2013 |archive-date=6 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606122628/http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parenthetical |url-status=live}}</ref>)

In [[phonetics]], parentheses are used for indistinguishable<ref name="IPA175">IPA ''Handbook'' p.&nbsp;175</ref> or unidentified utterances. They are also seen for silent articulation (mouthing),<ref name="IPA191">IPA ''Handbook'' p.&nbsp;191</ref> where the expected phonetic transcription is derived from lip-reading, and with periods to indicate silent pauses, for example {{IPA|(...)}} or {{IPA|(2 sec)}}.