Fries Peter H., Fries Nancy M. (Eds.). Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles Carpenter Fries in Perspective

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985. — 401 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 40).Charles C. Fries (1887-1967) was a major figure in American linguistics and language education during the first half of the 20th century. Theoretical innovation and practical implementation were important threads that ran throughout his work. Fries believed that the attempt to deal with practical problems was a vital part of developing linguistic theory. He spent most of his effort exploring grammar as a tool for communicating meaning. Charles C. Fries was quite influential in the development of linguistics in the United States, and yet in some ways remained outside of the mainstream of the linguistics he helped to develop. The contributors to this volume were asked to present and evaluate some aspect of Fries’ work and to show how similar ideas are being used today.Part 1: English Education
Education of English teachers - Harold B. Allen
Charles Carpenter Fries and the teaching of literature - Archibald A. Hill
Charles Fries and reading - William D. Page
Americn English grammar - Robert C. JonesPart 2: Linguistics and the English language
C.C. Fries’ view of language and linguistics - Peter H. Fries
C.C. Fries’ signals model of english grammar - Sidney Greenbaum
Slot in referential hierarchy in relation to Charles C. Fries’ view of language - Kenneth L. Pike and Peter H. Fries
Signals of sequence and thought - Carolyn G. Hartnett
Charles C. Fries on ‘Meaning’ in structural linguistics and language pedagogy - William J. Crawford
The impact of C.C. Fries’ work in historical linguistics - Janet Duthie Collins
Charles C. Fries and the Early Modern English Dictionary - Richard W. Bailey
C.C. Fries on standard English - James C. Stalker
Fries and linguistic geography - Raven I. McDavid and Virginia G. McDavid
Fries’ functionalism - Mackie J.-V. BlantonPart 3: English as a second language
Charles C. Fries and Jerome S. Burner: Common-sense and cognition in learning - James W. Ney
Charles Fries and contrastive analysis - Marcel Danesi
Pattern-practice revisited - Frederick J. Bosco
Legacy from a last chapter - Virginia French Allen
Native speaker performance and the cloze test, A quest for validity - Robert Lado
Listening comprehension in C.C. Fries’ oral approach - Lynn E. Henrichsen