Калиниченко, Валерия Владимировна2018-01-172018-01-172012http://ir.duan.edu.ua/handle/123456789/1101The article deals with a game notion as a pattern of human behavior, the linguistic variant of this behavior – wordplay. The approaches to this linguistic phenomenon analysis have been defined and the main notions of these approaches and their correlation have been analyzed.enlanguage gamelinguistic phenomenonfunctional and semantic approachcognitive approachaesthetic and cultural approachontological approachlanguage gamewordplaypunArticle