A principal point of Wittgenstein's concept of a language-game is to emphasize that a language or rhetorical system like law is always "part of an activity, or of a form of life."

DEFINE: This clarifies Wittgenstein's language-game concept: language is not abstract but tied to concrete activities and forms of life.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 793