Semantics of prescriptive discourse and language games

The main theme of this thesis is prescriptive sentences and their usage within language games. At the beginning, the thesis defines the range of analyzed sentences and presents a possible approach to their semantic analysis. Subsequently, the terms "Language Game" and "Score" are introduced and followed by illustrative examples. Moreover, the thesis describes one selected prescriptive language game in detail, analyses and evaluates the presented model. Furthermore, alternative approaches to solving of problems related to analysis of prescriptive language games are also put forward. The final part of this thesis summarizes the perspectives on this field of research