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What does Baker say about meaning that is carried by what is not said, and what name does he give it?

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Baker has no term for subtext; in Chapter VIII the words 'subtext', 'undercurrent', 'between the lines', 'unsaid' and 'unspoken' do not occur (scoped count below). The nearest ideas are his own 'gesture words' (compact lines whose full effect needs voice, face and pantomime; example: 'Eyes, eyes' in A Woman Killed with Kindness), the claim that real emotion is compact and connotative, replacing speech with pantomime (with a warning that pantomime fails for interior states), the 'latent business' a line implies, and a rule to put the emotion in the text instead of in parenthetical delivery directions. He cautions against unfinished lines, even while reporting Carlyle that a thought the hearer completes pleases. On my reading, the implied meaning in Baker is supplied by the performer rather than decoded by the audience from a gap.

Baker has no term for subtext; in Chapter VIII the words 'subtext', 'undercurrent', 'between the lines', 'unsaid' and 'unspoken' do not occur (scoped count below). The nearest ideas are his own 'gesture words' (compact lines whose full effect needs voice, face and pantomime; example: 'Eyes, eyes' in A Woman Killed with Kindness), the claim that real emotion is compact and connotative, replacing speech with pantomime (with a warning that pantomime fails for interior states), the 'latent business' a line implies, and a rule to put the emotion in the text instead of in parenthetical delivery directions. He cautions against unfinished lines, even while reporting Carlyle that a thought the hearer completes pleases. On my reading, the implied meaning in Baker is supplied by the performer rather than decoded by the audience from a gap. Curator qualifications: Gesture words is genuinely new; zero hits for subtext/undercurrent/unsaid/unspoken/between the lines/talky/mouthpiece in Ch. VIII confirmed by curator count. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36580/pg36580.txt",
      "note": "Ch. VIII joined offset ~112208; Ch. VIII lines 15719-15721"
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  • [sourced_fact] Baker has no term for subtext; in Chapter VIII the words 'subtext', 'undercurrent', 'between the lines', 'unsaid' and 'unspoken' do not occur (scoped count below). The nearest ideas are his own 'gesture words' (compact lines whose full effect needs voice, face and pantomime; example: 'Eyes, eyes' in A Woman Killed with Kindness), the claim that real emotion is compact and connotative, replacing speech with pantomime (with a warning that pantomime fails for interior states), the 'latent business' a line implies, and a rule to put the emotion in the text instead of in parenthetical delivery directions. He cautions against unfinished lines, even while reporting Carlyle that a thought the hearer completes pleases. On my reading, the implied meaning in Baker is supplied by the performer rather than decoded by the audience from a gap. · locator: Ch. VIII joined offset ~112208; Ch. VIII lines 15719-15721 source

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