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Conceptual language

Concept
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Language oriented toward ideas and abstractions rather than material details

Detailed Definition
Conceptual language in poetry emphasizes the intellectual or systemic properties of words over their emotive or sensory qualities, often deploying repetition, tautology, or bureaucratic diction to critique communication norms or expose linguistic structures beneath surface meaning.
Example
Example in poetry:
John Ashbery’s abstract conceptual language; Kenneth Goldsmith’s documentary transcripts used as literature; Stein’s fragmented language as concept; Language poetry emphasizing theory over sense.
Additional Notes
Conceptual language|The use of abstract, theoretical, or philosophical vocabulary and diction, rather than concrete, sensory language, in a poem; characteristic of Conceptual (3992) poetry.
Also Known As
idea language abstract diction symbolic phrasing Abstract language
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