Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST),this study intends to investigate into the typical features of rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners’argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality....Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST),this study intends to investigate into the typical features of rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners’argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality.A set of 60 essays(30 with the highest scores and another 30 with the lowest scores)were drawn from SWECCL(Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners).These essays were then cut into elementary discourse units and manually annotated with rhetorical relations.Research findings show that there is no significant difference in terms of the total numbers and types of rhetorical relations between the two proficiency groups.However,comparisons of the rhetorical relations both at the intra-paragraph and at the inter-paragraph level indicate statistical differences between the two groups.展开更多
Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the stru...Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the structural organization of the Methods and the linguistic features link to each move.Thus,the purpose of this study is to identify rhetorical structure of the Methods of agricultural science research articles and to explore the linguistic features linked to each identified move,by analyzing thirty research articles based on Kanoksilapatham's2005 framework.Altogether,five moves were found in the Methods,showing that rhetorical structure of Methods in agricultural science has its own format.The moves and linguistic features realizing rhetorical functions may help novice researchers or learners write the Methods of science research articles effectively and professionally.展开更多
Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical tre...Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical trees.Through a thorough investiga-tion of rhetorical structures of Xi's speeches on the basis of RST, the study found that:1) Elaboration, Background and Evidence re-lations are the dominant relations in President Xi's speeches;2) The preference of forward arrow direction is an unexpected find-ing;3) There are two patterns of macrostructure of rhetorical relations in Xi's speeches.展开更多
Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory,this study intends to investigate into the erroneous rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners 'argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality.Research fi...Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory,this study intends to investigate into the erroneous rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners 'argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality.Research findings show that students have problems in handling textual coherence in form and function.However,comparisons of the erroneous rhetorical relations both at the intra-paragraph and at the inter-paragraph level indicate statistical differences between the two groups.展开更多
Early studies on discourse rhetorical structure parsing mainly adopt bottom-up approaches,limiting the parsing process to local information.Although current top-down parsers can better capture global information and h...Early studies on discourse rhetorical structure parsing mainly adopt bottom-up approaches,limiting the parsing process to local information.Although current top-down parsers can better capture global information and have achieved particular success,the importance of local and global information at various levels of discourse parsing is differ-ent.This paper argues that combining local and global information for discourse parsing is more sensible.To prove this,we introduce a top-down discourse parser with bidirectional representation learning capabilities.Existing corpora on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST)are known to be much limited in size,which makes discourse parsing very challenging.To alleviate this problem,we leverage some boundary features and a data augmentation strategy to tap the potential of our parser.We use two methods for evaluation,and the experiments on the RST-DT corpus show that our parser can pri-marily improve the performance due to the effective combination of local and global information.The boundary features and the data augmentation strategy also play a role.Based on gold standard elementary discourse units(EDUs),our pars-er significantly advances the baseline systems in nuclearity detection,with the results on the other three indicators(span,relation,and full)being competitive.Based on automatically segmented EDUs,our parser still outperforms previous state-of-the-artwork.展开更多
In this article, the general text structure of English and Chinese will be stated respectively at first. Then the issue of whether different rhetoric between Chinese and English will influence the reading comprehensio...In this article, the general text structure of English and Chinese will be stated respectively at first. Then the issue of whether different rhetoric between Chinese and English will influence the reading comprehension of the Chinese students will be analyzed and evaluated.展开更多
视觉修辞是一个新兴的学术领域,起源于20世纪60年代,强调以视觉文本为修辞对象的修辞实践与方法。"新修辞学""视觉传播"和"机构转型"分别回应了视觉修辞"出场"的理论突破问题、修辞议题问题和...视觉修辞是一个新兴的学术领域,起源于20世纪60年代,强调以视觉文本为修辞对象的修辞实践与方法。"新修辞学""视觉传播"和"机构转型"分别回应了视觉修辞"出场"的理论突破问题、修辞议题问题和机构实践问题。而罗兰·巴特的《图像的修辞》(Rhetoric of the Image)、鲁道夫·阿恩海姆的《视觉思维》(Visual Thinking)、约翰·伯格的《观看之道》(Ways of Seeing)成为视觉修辞起源的三大奠基性成果。视觉修辞的意义,对应于巴特所讲的图像符号的含蓄意指。而视觉意义生产的修辞"语言",存在于视觉符号深层的"修辞结构"(rhetorical structure)之中。展开更多
文摘Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST),this study intends to investigate into the typical features of rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners’argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality.A set of 60 essays(30 with the highest scores and another 30 with the lowest scores)were drawn from SWECCL(Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners).These essays were then cut into elementary discourse units and manually annotated with rhetorical relations.Research findings show that there is no significant difference in terms of the total numbers and types of rhetorical relations between the two proficiency groups.However,comparisons of the rhetorical relations both at the intra-paragraph and at the inter-paragraph level indicate statistical differences between the two groups.
文摘Currently,there has been a growing interest in the study of academic writing;focusing on the structural organization of academic text or specific linguistic features.However,very few studies have been done on the structural organization of the Methods and the linguistic features link to each move.Thus,the purpose of this study is to identify rhetorical structure of the Methods of agricultural science research articles and to explore the linguistic features linked to each identified move,by analyzing thirty research articles based on Kanoksilapatham's2005 framework.Altogether,five moves were found in the Methods,showing that rhetorical structure of Methods in agricultural science has its own format.The moves and linguistic features realizing rhetorical functions may help novice researchers or learners write the Methods of science research articles effectively and professionally.
文摘Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical trees.Through a thorough investiga-tion of rhetorical structures of Xi's speeches on the basis of RST, the study found that:1) Elaboration, Background and Evidence re-lations are the dominant relations in President Xi's speeches;2) The preference of forward arrow direction is an unexpected find-ing;3) There are two patterns of macrostructure of rhetorical relations in Xi's speeches.
文摘Based on Rhetorical Structure Theory,this study intends to investigate into the erroneous rhetorical relations in Chinese EFL learners 'argumentative writing and their relationship with writing quality.Research findings show that students have problems in handling textual coherence in form and function.However,comparisons of the erroneous rhetorical relations both at the intra-paragraph and at the inter-paragraph level indicate statistical differences between the two groups.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.62276178。
文摘Early studies on discourse rhetorical structure parsing mainly adopt bottom-up approaches,limiting the parsing process to local information.Although current top-down parsers can better capture global information and have achieved particular success,the importance of local and global information at various levels of discourse parsing is differ-ent.This paper argues that combining local and global information for discourse parsing is more sensible.To prove this,we introduce a top-down discourse parser with bidirectional representation learning capabilities.Existing corpora on Rhetorical Structure Theory(RST)are known to be much limited in size,which makes discourse parsing very challenging.To alleviate this problem,we leverage some boundary features and a data augmentation strategy to tap the potential of our parser.We use two methods for evaluation,and the experiments on the RST-DT corpus show that our parser can pri-marily improve the performance due to the effective combination of local and global information.The boundary features and the data augmentation strategy also play a role.Based on gold standard elementary discourse units(EDUs),our pars-er significantly advances the baseline systems in nuclearity detection,with the results on the other three indicators(span,relation,and full)being competitive.Based on automatically segmented EDUs,our parser still outperforms previous state-of-the-artwork.
文摘In this article, the general text structure of English and Chinese will be stated respectively at first. Then the issue of whether different rhetoric between Chinese and English will influence the reading comprehension of the Chinese students will be analyzed and evaluated.
文摘视觉修辞是一个新兴的学术领域,起源于20世纪60年代,强调以视觉文本为修辞对象的修辞实践与方法。"新修辞学""视觉传播"和"机构转型"分别回应了视觉修辞"出场"的理论突破问题、修辞议题问题和机构实践问题。而罗兰·巴特的《图像的修辞》(Rhetoric of the Image)、鲁道夫·阿恩海姆的《视觉思维》(Visual Thinking)、约翰·伯格的《观看之道》(Ways of Seeing)成为视觉修辞起源的三大奠基性成果。视觉修辞的意义,对应于巴特所讲的图像符号的含蓄意指。而视觉意义生产的修辞"语言",存在于视觉符号深层的"修辞结构"(rhetorical structure)之中。
