English Explanatory Dictionary

language game

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A set of rules governing how participants respond to utterings.
  2. A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc.
  3. A method of manipulating words so that the layman would find it hard to understand, such as pig Latin, gibberish, etc.

Word forms

language game language games

Etymology

Calque of German Sprachspiel, coined by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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