The Metalingual Function about the Three Unspeakable Situations in the Early Thoughts of Wittgenstein

摘要

The metalingual function of language is to talk what we talk and think what we think.The contribution of Wittgenstein’s early research on language is to clear the boundary that there is something beyond words.This topic of this paper is to exploit the meaning of why''the unspeakable''is unspeakable.It could be divided into 3 parts.The first part is introduction about the goal of this research.The second part is analyses about the three unspeakable situations in the early thoughts of Wittgenstein.The third part is three points of enlightenments about the unspeakable situation.