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A Wittgensteinian Approach to Discourse Analysis
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【初中七年级英语论文】Culture and Value, a collection of Ludwig Wittgenstein's aphorisms, contains a puzzling remark:
"In a conversation: one person throws a ball; the other does not know whether he is supposed to throw it back, or throw it to a third person, or leave it on the ground, or pick it up and put it in his pocket, etc."1
The remark is puzzling because in the vast majority of cases that take place under ordinary circumstances, it seems that any two people engaged in a conversation have little trouble interpreting and responding meaningfully to each other's utterances. Perhaps Wittgenstein intends the remark to illustrate that when two interlocutors engage inconversation, they are often forced to feel their way -- to try to determine as best they can the kind of the game that is being played, its rules and goals, its boundaries and players. Yet precisely how interpretation and r
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