No. Parentheses are anything that enclose additional text. For example:
"who just woke up" is additional information, and is enclosed by ","s. Thus they are parentheses. Brackets, dashes, semi-colons, and probably more, can all be used in this way; to parenthesise information. I actually only learnt this the other day as well.
Quote:James, who just woke up, went to the shop.
"who just woke up" is additional information, and is enclosed by ","s. Thus they are parentheses. Brackets, dashes, semi-colons, and probably more, can all be used in this way; to parenthesise information. I actually only learnt this the other day as well.