查看更多>>摘要:With knowing how to make sounds with the vibration of vocals,humans are not just intending to make meaningless noi-ses,but also to communicate with each other thus they make 'languages'.For example,if a girl accepts a boy's invitation to a con-cert,she will reply him in a basic way with'I will see you in front of the theatre by 7pm tomorrow!'.After the amazing concert,the girl may express the feeling with'What a wonderful concert!Thank you for inviting me this time! '.Then she wants to invite him for a movie next time,so she asks'Do you want to watch this movie next week with me? '.They may create more simple but significant sentences like these to communicate with each other for the basic requests,invitations or expressions to improve their relationship.The communications in the example are the main topic for my following essay,which is to discuss the basic pragmatic way of people com-municating with each other and the significance of the theory of speech acts profound by an American Philosopher John R.Searle.
查看更多>>摘要:Grasping the main idea is a key to reading comprehension.Thematic idea is the central content that the author wants to express in the article.Grasping the thematic idea is also helpful to understand the details of the article.This information should be able to generalize and summarize the commonality of other information in the text.Identifying and mastering the most basic and gener-al information in the article is critical to our understanding of the whole article.However,the topic sentence in the article is also the key to understanding the main idea of the article.