As a theory of textual structure, Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) focuses on the relation between sentences and that between paragraphs so that the structure of a text may be discernable.

• 修辞结构理论作为一种篇章结构理论 ,着眼于分析段落中句子与句子之间的关系 ,乃至篇章中段落与段落之间的关系 ,从而达到对整篇文章结构与内容的把握。