本书以“政治游说”为主线，从“如何劝说或影响别人决策以达到安身立命、安邦治国和捭阖国际政治外交”的视角，以考证、翻译和解读的形式，运用现代汉语深入浅出地对西汉刘向编撰的《战国策》的全部494篇策文进行了逐一翻译解读，并为重要篇章考绘了近50幅诸侯争雄形势图。本书既是一部古典文献的现代语文版通俗读物，又是一部建立在信史基础上的研究专著。因此，既适合于学习掌握沟通技巧和方法的普通大众，也适合于从事战国史、国际政治与外交研究的学者，不同层次的读者可以各取所需。

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.