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A language-game (German: Sprachspiel) is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. Wittgenstein argued that a word or even a sentence has meaning only as a result of the "rule" of the "game" being played.
Sep 21, 2020 · Language-game or Sprachspiel is a term invented by Wittgenstein and used in The Philosophical Investigations ‘to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or a form of life’, (PI 23) and consists of both language and actions.
Nov 8, 2002 · Throughout the Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein returns, again and again, to the concept of language-games to make clear his lines of thought concerning language. Primitive language-games are scrutinized for the insights they afford on this or that characteristic of language.
One game is polari, the secret language used among gay men in Wittgenstein’s time. Language-games, with their beguiling snares, raise a collective action problem. We can’t extricate ourselves from them if acting alone.
Language games, for Wittgenstein, are concrete social activities that crucially involve the use of specific forms of language. By describing the countless variety of language games—the countless ways in which language is actually used in human interaction—Wittgenstein meant to show that “the speaking…
Wittgenstein‟s theory of language game gives outstanding contribution to the analytical philosophy. He describes mainly Seventy three (73) examples of language games in his Brown book (1938). Every language game described predicted situation.
In this section, we introduce three interdependent notions: 1) the language games (semiotic practices which, despite the term "language", are not restricted to verbal language); 2) the moves of the language games (concrete actions performed in a given language game, the raw data of semiotic theory); 3) the grammar of the language games (the ...
