Jan.13th, 2015, IJO/IES Partial Editorial Board Meeting was held in Academician Dai-Ming Fan's office. The Chief Editor Xiu-Wen Hu was reporting the IJO work statement of 2014.
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
文摘Jan.13th, 2015, IJO/IES Partial Editorial Board Meeting was held in Academician Dai-Ming Fan's office. The Chief Editor Xiu-Wen Hu was reporting the IJO work statement of 2014.
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.