Language and Communing

The closest Wittgenstein seems to come to formally defining 'Language-Game' is in #7 of the Investigations: "I shall also call the whole, consisting of language and the actions into which it is woven, the 'language-game'.  Implied in this formulation is a distinction between Language and some associated activity.  However, there is no such distinction in cases in which people converse simply to socialize.  In these experiences, Language is not so much used as, rather, expressing the togetherness of those involved.  Therein, the essence of Language as not merely Communication, but as a mode of Communing is laid bare, and exhibited as prior to any ulterior activity into which it might be woven.