本书内容包括：说话就是做事（言语行为）、让语境说话（语境的作用）、寻字觅词见功夫（词义的语用变化）、言在此而意在彼（言外之意）、话语中的圈套（预设）、话语的起承转合（话语分析）等。(This book can be divided into several parts including To Speak is to Do Things (Verbal Behavior), Contexts Speak for Themselves (Functions of Context), Reveal the Efforts in Looking for Words and Characters (Pragmatic Changes in Lexical Meanings), Aiming at A Pigeon And Shooting at A Crow (Implication), Traps in Discourse (Presupposition), Changing and Concluding of Discourse (Discourse Analysis) and so forth.)