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Toward an Understanding of Language

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Toward an Understanding of Language

Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles C. Fries in Perspective (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub | 1985 | ISBN: 9027235341 | English | PDF | 384 pages | 30.79 Mb

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 2: Linguistics and the English language

Introduction. Charles C. Fries: the life of a linguist
Richard W. Bailey

1
C.C. Fries’ view of language and linguistics
Peter H. Fries

63
Preface

vii
Part 1: English education

Charles Carpenter Fries and the teaching of literature
Archibald A. Hill

27
Education of English teachers
Harold B. Allen

19
Charles Fries and reading
William D. Page

33
Americn English grammar
Robert C. Jones

51
Pattern-practice revisited
Frederick J. Bosco

297
Legacy from a last chapter
Virginia French Allen

319
Bibliography of Charles C. Fries

359
Listening comprehension in C.C. Fries’ oral approach
Lynn E. Henrichsen

343
C.C. Fries on standard English
James C. Stalker

205
C.C. Fries’ signals model of english grammar
Sidney Greenbaum

85
The impact of C.C. Fries’ work in historical linguistics
Janet Duthie Collins

161
Charles C. Fries and the Early Modern English Dictionary
Richard W. Bailey

171
Fries’ functionalism
Mackie J.-V. Blanton

237
About the authors

373
Fries and linguistic geography
Raven I. McDavid, Jr. and Virginia G. McDavid

221
Slot in referential hierarchy in relation to Charles C. Fries’ view of language
Kenneth L. Pike and Peter H. Fries

105
Part 3: Engllish as a second Language

Signals of sequence and thought
Carolyn G. Hartnett

129
Native speaker performance and the cloze test, A quest for validity
Robert Lado

331
Charles C. Fries and Jerome S. Burner: Common-sense and cognition in learning
James W. Ney

259
Charles Fries and contrastive analysis
Marcel Danesi

277
Charles C. Fries on ‘Meaning’ in structural linguistics and language pedagogy
William J. Crawford

143


Toward an Understanding of Language