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In:Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles Carpenter Fries in Perspective
Edited by Peter H. Fries and Nancy M. Fries
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 40] 1985
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1985
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Table of contents

Prefacevii
Introduction. Charles C. Fries: the life of a linguist1
Part 1: English education
Education of English teachers19
Charles Carpenter Fries and the teaching of literature27
Charles Fries and reading33
Americn English grammar51
Part 2: Linguistics and the English language
C.C. Fries’ view of language and linguistics63
C.C. Fries’ signals model of english grammar85
Slot in referential hierarchy in relation to Charles C. Fries’ view of language105
Signals of sequence and thought129
Charles C. Fries on ‘Meaning’ in structural linguistics and language pedagogy143
The impact of C.C. Fries’ work in historical linguistics161
Charles C. Fries and the Early Modern English Dictionary171
C.C. Fries on standard English205
Fries and linguistic geography221
Fries’ functionalism237
Part 3: Engllish as a second Language
Charles C. Fries and Jerome S. Burner: Common-sense and cognition in learning259
Charles Fries and contrastive analysis277
Pattern-practice revisited297
Legacy from a last chapter319
Native speaker performance and the cloze test, A quest for validity331
Listening comprehension in C.C. Fries’ oral approach343
Bibliography of Charles C. Fries359
About the authors373
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