LANGUAGE GAME: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

The term „language game‟ was first used in linguistic philosophy at 20th century. 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. Further analysis of language game elaborated in his two main work- “Philosophical Investigation” and “On Certainty”. According to him, language is a kind of game, which we play through language. Through language we can describe the picture of the world, which is elaborated in his „Tractatus‟, but later in his Philosophical Investigation, he tried to analyse „language has no singles essence‟. Language is a kind of game, and words or sentences are the tools of language. In Philosophical Investigation, he rejected three assumptions, i.e. language is used for presenting of facts in one purpose; through picturing the sentence acquires meaning in one way; in logical calculus that language has a clear and distinct structure. The major objective of this paper is to interpret the Wittgenstein‟s view of „Language game‟.