单词 | language game |
释义 | > as lemmaslanguage game language game n. (a) a game involving the repetition or creation of words, sentences, etc., in order to facilitate the learning of a language; (b) Philosophy a speech activity or complete, but limited, system of communication and action, which may or may not form a part of the existing use of language in its wider context. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > [noun] > language-game language game1914 1914 Elem. School Jrnl. 15 25 One device which has proved very successful is the language game. 1921 H. E. Palmer Princ. Lang.-study 145 Language-games may not further the student sufficiently in the habit-forming process. 1933–4 L. Wittgenstein Blue & Brown Bks. (1958) 17 I shall in the future again and again draw your attention to what I shall call language games. These are ways of using signs simpler than those in which we use the signs of our highly complicated everyday language. Language games are the forms of language with which a child begins to make use of words. 1970 A. MacIntyre Marcuse vii. 80 Wittgenstein tries to construct language games. 1970 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 787/1 In this country it was a dominant caste of philosophers..who seemed to be most gainfully preoccupied with the verbal manifestations of mind, having been coached at ‘language-games’ by Wittgenstein. 2000 D. E. Ford in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 117/1 Theologians should make clear what sort of language game christology is and draw the consequences for ‘playing’ it. < as lemmas |
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