For this reason, a private-language, in which "words … are to refer to what only the speaker can know to his immediate private sensations …" (PI 243), is not a genuine, meaningful, rule-governed language.
As entertainment, the cut-ups are hard going, but seen in the context of Burroughs's obsessive desire to free his mind from 'control' - in this case, the control of 'word locks', or rigid conceptual structures governed by language - the experiments make more sense.
Secondly, the concept of language-games points at the rule-governed character of language.
Cricket is definitely something different, described by what seems to be it own language and governed by rules ("laws" in official cricket-speak) that make even the proudly dense game of baseball seem as simple and linear as Go Fish.
The way in which meaningful elements can be combined within a language is governed by rules.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born philosopher, discussed informally the "language-games"—or rule-governed activities connecting a language with the world that are supposed to give the expressions of language their meanings; but these games have scarcely been related to any systematic logical theory.
Thus, to quote Rosier, "The rule-governed nature of language-functions is to be found not only in the common usage but also in those 'authorized' variations.
The data analysis revealed the core category, "Self-determination - shifting between self-governing and being governed".
"It's a serial intervallic language," he explained, describing a system governed partly by mathematical principles, and inspired by ideas in the music of the 20th-century composer Edgard Varèse.
Jefferson's language about equality and consent of the governed laid down a marker that has been difficult to walk away from, as generation after generation has demanded its place at the table of American democracy".
Craveirinha's poetry utilizes imagistic appeals to the African landscape, the African languages, and, above all, to an Africa governed by Africans.
