This Diploma Thesis could be treated as an addition to the project of Brian Sutton-Smith, who through his academic research activity compiled a large number of play forms which are being taken on during our lives (and some of them in the lives of animals). To ensure an easier control of the diversity, he chose to sort these forms by the adjacent rhetorics.
Board games are negligently discussed in his work. To shed light on new ways of dealing with play that are brought to the forefront by its tabletop variants, I decided to focus on the presentation of three rhetorics of play that are less highlighted or in some cases only presupposed by Sutton-Smith.
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