The Classical Rhetorical Structure Theory
Rhetorical Structure Theory and Its Applications - Past, Present and Future - Bo Wang
Bo Wang [+]
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau
Bo Wang received his doctoral degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include systemic functional linguistics, translation studies, discourse analysis, and language description. He is co-author of Lao She's Teahouse and Its Two English Translations (Routledge), Translating Tagore’s Stray Birds into Chinese (Routledge) and Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics (Springer). He is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau, China.
Yuanyi Ma [+]
Yuanyi Ma received her doctoral degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include systemic functional linguistics, translation studies, discourse analysis, and language description. She is co-author of Lao She's Teahouse and Its Two English Translations (Routledge), Translating Tagore’s Stray Birds into Chinese (Routledge) and Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics (Springer). She is an independent researcher in China.
Description
From Chapter 2 to Chapter 3, we examine the development of the theory through two main phases, i.e. the classical RST developed in the 1980s and Matthiessen’s (forthcoming) Rhetorical System and Structure Theory. In Chapter 2, we discuss the historical background of the classical RST, provide an overview of the rhetorical-relational resources, introduce the key concepts of classical RST such as nucleus and satellite, and illustrate how analysis can be carried out with the help of classical RST (see Mann 2002a, 2002b, 2003; Taboada 2001, 2004 for Mann and Taboada’s extension of classical RST; see Taboada & Mann 2006a, 2006b for reports on the developments and applications of classical RST).