...validly be described as ‘language'. Wittgenstein explains that: ‘Here the term “language-game” is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life' (23, original emphasis). 3 There are ‘countless' different language games, because...

...equally validly be described as 'language'. Wittgenstein explains that: 'Here the term "language-game" is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life' (23, original emphasis). 3 There are 'countless' different language games, because...

...(We can get a rough picture of this from the changes in mathematics.) Here the term "language-game" is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life. (PI, 23) To understand language is to understand it as part of the activities in...

...difficulties to which this distinction leads." Within a language-game — "the term 'language-gam^' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life" (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations 1.23) — , there may be understandings...

...existence, and others become obsolete and get forgotten. Here the term “language-game” [Sprachspiel] is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life [Lebensform]. Reviewed the multiplicity of language-games in the following examples,...

...(§23) with how we actually operate with words. Indeed he explicitly says 'the term "language-game" is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity' (same section). Bringing something 'into prominence' is not at all the same as postulating something...

...reason for using the term language-games for the various forms of "sentences" and "word", is, first, ... "to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life" (ibid. para. 22). And it is to bring into prominence the fact, secondly, that he...

...always functions in the same way, Wittgenstein also proposed the conception of language-games, bringing ‘into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life' (ibid.: 23). An appropriate way of investigating the ordinary use of language is...

...kneading yeast bread. The reason I like this metaphor is that it fits with Wittgenstein's (1953) idea that the speaking of language is part of an activity or "form of life." Don Schoen supports this view in his wonderful book The Reflective Practitioner (1984). He says that...

...related, but distinct “language games” (Wittgenstein. 1958, 1968). For Wittgenstein (1968, #23), “the term ‘language game' is meant to bring into...that the speaking of language is part of an activity. - A language game is an activity seen as a language complete in itself, a complete system of human...