摘要：Work is devoted to the modern stage of development of Russian. The general lines of this period are analyzed as pre-conditions for activation of role of linguistic game in all its displays. The special attention is spared to clarification of determination of term «linguistic game».
As determination the following formulation is offered: a linguistic game is intentional having a special purpose violation of norm, accomplished by the transmitter of language for realization of certain tasks.
The use of elements of linguistic game is analyzed in a modern language (and in writing and in verbal forms).
Specified, that the elements of linguistic game are inherent to the most developed languages practically in any historical epoch, however most productive from this point of view are transitional periods in development of language and civilization/cultures on the whole.
Intertekst in modern language is examined as one of displays of linguistic game. Determined and characterized specific literary genre, descendant a linguistic game, - playing text in which a linguistic game becomes the instrument of co-operation of author and reader, both with each other and with the real and virtual world.
关键词：linguistic game, intertekst, linguistic joke, linguistic error, playing text, norm.
