![]() ![]() The examples of these are tongue twisters, roundelays, funny riddles, and childish gobbledygook nursery rhymes well known in any culture. Scholars also refer to language game the cases of play upon complete texts, which are made deliberately meaningless and devoid of logic just for fun. They include into this list all sorts of puns and witticisms, humorous play on words and their hidden meanings, flippant parodying, secretive childish types of speech, gibberish, encoded slangs of criminals. Linguists assume "language games" include a whole list of various imaginable deviations from what is viewed as language and speech norms. That laconic is the children's explanation of the phenomenon of "language games". You merely pronounce ordinary words but leave out the first letter in each word. "A - Do you know there is such a funny new language? B - What sort of language?Ī - A very simple one, but nobody will make out what you say. By the by, a few days ago the author of this paper happened to hear the following conversation of the two young girls: In childhood, all of us were fond of putting in extra syllables into words to make our utterance secretive to strangers and just for fun, as for example, ab-let's -ab-go ab-for -ab-walk. Every language speaker has got an idea of the games with language from the beginning of his language acquisition and they occupy a considerable place in his everyday experience throughout his life. In the mentality of language speakers, language game is associated with deliberate playful use of language in the broadest sense of the word, with multiform flippant misuse of words and sounds, with play based on attaching new unexpected and therefore jocular meanings to words, with all sorts of puns and witty jokes and popular humorous aphorisms. Keywords: language game word humour humour of situation intentional deviations from language norms communicative space inventory of wordformation means the function of impact (poetic function of language) "gamely" function of language. Hence, "language game" should be actually considered as a self-sufficient, "gamely" function of language. ![]() ![]() The author argues that "language game" has a far greater sphere of functioning - in fact, the communicative space as a whole. It is mostly correlated with the poetic function of language (the function of impact) and so a limited number of written varieties of speech restricts its functioning. Though the term "language game" is broadly used in today's academic publications, it has so far remained ambiguous. Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service (Vladivostok, Russia).Į-mail: The paper presents an overview of the most popular approaches to the phenomenon of "language game" in contemporary linguistics. ON CLARIFICATION OF THE TERM "LANGUAGE GAME" ![]()
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