Seinfeld's use of Language

The main concept I drew from the Seinfeld text was the use of language. Seinfeld uses language as its primary tool, given its settings and visual appeal are rather dull. The entertainment aspect rest on the characters use of language, for the most part. In once clip that was show in the presentation, Elaine was talking about her sexual experience using an analogy of baseball. She uses the term “other team”… although it was never directly stated, it is clear from our contextual understanding of this it is referencing someone who is gay. Elaine’s analogy is an example of a language-game. The word meaning is relational to the context. Language is used in this manner for a purpose. In Seinfeld’s case, like many other movies and shows, language is carefully constructed around delicate subjects in mass media. Therefore, language can serve this purpose to either mock, criticize, and address, etc. topics that would not normally be discussed using plain language because of the sensitivity factor.