Doing things with words

There is a sociological reading of Wittgenstein which makes him a kind of linguistic social constructivist; and the 'ordinary language' school of philosophy focussed, in a somewhat similar way, on actual language usage.

I think that he was more interested in what we can say than in what we do say. His examples aren't, perversely, meant to be exemplary - they are meant to be exploratory.

Not 'This makes sense' but 'Does this make sense?'.

He was showing us things, and asking whether we could see how the game was played - and how it might be developed.