Review the multiplicity of language-games in the following examples, and in others:

• Giving orders, and obeying them
• Describing the appearance of an objects, or giving its measurement
• Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)
• Reporting an event
• Speculating about an 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 to another
• Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, praying

• Ernest, P. (1998) "Social constructivism as a philosophy of mathematics
• Kauffman, S.A. (2000) "Investigations", Oxford University Press, New York
• Semiotics