运用RST Tool分析科技英语长句

Analyzing Long Sentences in English for Science and Technology by Means of RST Tool

科技英语长句逻辑严密,结构关系复杂,往往对科技英语阅读和翻译造成很大困难。修辞结构理论(Rhetorical Structure Theory,RST)着力分析书面独白语篇中语义衔接与连贯的修辞关系,并广泛应用于语篇的生成和结构分析。通过描述修辞结构理论框架,运用RST Tool对科技英语长句进行实例分析,以期为明晰科技语句的逻辑语义关系提供一种易操作的分析平台,为科技阅读和科技翻译提供有益启示。

Due to their rigorousness in logical terms and complicatedness in structural relations, long sentences of English for Science and Technology tend to present great difficulties in the course of EST reading and EST translation. Rhetorical Structure Theory.is characteristic of analyzing rhetorical relations for semantic coherence of written monologue texts and therefore is widely applicable in text generation and structural analysis. On the basis of the description of RST framework, the present study is concerned with the analysis of long sentences in EST text by means of RST Tool, in an attempt to provide a new analytical tool for structural analysis of EST texts. Our research finds that RST Tool is easily operational, providing significant implications for EST reading and EST translation.