The Metalingual Function about the Three Unspeakable Situations in the Early Thoughts of Wittgenstei

• 作 者: XIAO Xiao BAI Wan-ying WANG Ai-hua
• 机 构: School of Linguistics and Literature, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,
• 出 处: 海外英语
• 发表日期: 2016年15期

The metalingual function of language is to talk what we talk and think what we think.The contribution of Wittgenstein’s early research on language is to clear the boundary that there is something beyond words.This topic of this paper is to exploit the meaning of why“the unspeakable”is unspeakable.It could be divided into 3 parts.The first part is introduction about the goal of this research.The second part is analyses about the three unspeakable situations in the early thoughts of Wittgenstein.The third part is three points of enlightenments about the unspeakable situation.

The metalingual function of language is to talk what we talk and think what we think. The contribution of Wittgenstein’s early research on language is to clear the boundary that there is something beyond words. This topic of this paper is to exploit the meaning of why “ the unspeakable ”is unspeakable. It could be divided into 3 parts. first part is introduction about the goal of this research. second part is analyses about the three unspeakable situations in the early thoughts of Wittgenstein.The third part is three points of enlightenments about the unspeakable situation.