As well as work on narrative structure already mentioned, however, several
scholars have recently pointed out ways of developing the traditional concerns
of rhetoric in linguistically interesting ways, which draw on contemporary
work in discourse, semantics and pragmatics. For example,
different approaches are represented by Nystrand (ed., 1983) which has
particular reference to written discourse; Widdowson (1979) which has
particular reference to EFL and EST; and papers by Sperber and Wilson
(e.g. 1983) which have particular reference to semantic and pragmatic
theory.