But how many kinds of sentences are there? Say assertion, question, and command? There are countless kinds: countless different kinds of use of what we call “symbols”, “words”, “sentences”. And this multiplicity is not something fixed, given once for all; but new types of language, new language-games, as we may say, come into existence others become obsolete and get forgotten. …
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 life-form.
Review the multiplicity of language-games in the following examples, and in others:
- Giving orders and obeying them-
- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements-
- Reporting an event-
- Speculating about the event-
- Forming and testing a hypothesis-
- Presenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagrams-
- Making up a story; and reading it-
- Play-acting-
- Singing catches-
- Guessing riddles-
- Making a joke; telling it-
- Solving a problem in practical arithmetic-
- Translating from one language into another-
- Requesting, thanking, cursing, greeting, praying.
It is interesting to compare the multiplicity of the tools in language and of the ways they are used, the multiplicity of kinds of word and sentence, with what logicians have said about the structure of language (Including [L. Wittgenstein]).

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (23.) 

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