Language-game is referring to the linguistic practices and the formulation of criterion that we found while understanding a sentence in a contextual paradigm of a language. It is the platform where we find a link between language and reality. Elaborating this view Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations says that meaning cannot be acquired just by observing the expressions of a language and their relation to the worldly affairs. Nor can they be read off from the mental contents of the language users. So, we need a 'primitive language-game' for understanding an utterance of a speaker. A 'primitive language-game' may be defined as "a pattern of behavior in which one participant responds to a signal or communication by doing something directly observable and immediately intelligible" (Black, 1986, 76). Primitive language helps to identify the context in which the speaker is conversing language and thereby we understand the meaning of speaker's utterances.

Speaking of language is part of a communal activity. It is through participating in the common language-game that language is connected with our life (PG 65). In this connection Wittgenstein enunciates that language-game encompasses the notion 'form-of-life'. This is because language communicates in a community-based society. In a society though we find the different patterns of behavior among the individuals yet there is an underlying unity is found among these behavioral differences. The underlying unity is the understanding of one another's language. This understanding is possible because of the uniformity that is found in the community. Wittgenstein calls this the 'form-of-life' within which individuals in a community participate. The concept of 'form-of-life' is similar to the concept of 'family-resemblance'. The reason is that each individual in a family although they behave differently yet we find certain commonality among the family members of a family.