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Sources (most not until now incorporated penetrate the affect account):

Anthony, Prince M. 1968. 'Charles Carpenter Fries 1887-1967'. English Dialect Teaching 23/1: 3-4; Murphy, Peter Histrion and Spud, Nancy

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FRIES, Charles C(arpenter)

FRIES, Charles C(arpenter)[1887–1967].American grammarian and lexicographer, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and educated at Bucknell U., where he was appointed to the faculty in 1911 to teach RHETORICand GREEK. In 1914, he shifted from classics to English, and he gained his Ph.D. in 1922 with a study of shalland willin Renaissance English. He joined the English department at the U. of Michigan in 1921 and worked there until his retirement in 1958. He became editor-in-chief in 1928 of the Early Modern English Dictionary, and was an adviser to the Random House American College Dictionary(1948). Fries sought to describe English as it was rather than as it ought to be. In American English Grammar(1940), he investigated social-class differences through the study of letters written to a government agency. In defining the scope of this enquiry, he declared ‘that there can be no “correctness’ ‘apart from USAGE’. A second descriptive work, The Structure of English(1925), drew on recorded telephone conversations; his innovative approach in that volume emphasized ‘signals of structural meaning’ that could be isolated and described from the stream of SPEECHrather than from the ‘ideas’ e

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Charles C. Fries archive

The Warwick ELT Archive contains the following books by or relating to C.C. Fries:

 

Fries, C. C. (1940). National Council of Teachers of English: English Monograph. American English Grammar: The Grammatical Structure of Present-day American English with Especial Reference to Social Differences or Class Dialects. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Fries, C. C. (1945). Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michgan Press.

Fries, C. C., Ed. (1953). Selected Articles from 'Language Learning'. Series I: English as a Foreign Language. Ann Arbor, MI, The Research Club.

Fries, C. C. (1957). The Structure of English: An Introduction to the Construction of English Sentences. London, Longmans, Green.

Fries, C. C. (1962). Linguistics: The Study of Language. Chapter Two of 'Linguistics and Reading'. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Fries, C. C. (1962). The Teaching of English: A Series of Essays on: What is Good English?; Teaching the English Language; Teaching Literature. Ann Arbor, MI, George Wahr.

Fries, C. C. (1963). Linguistics and Reading. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Fries, C. C. and A. A. Traver (1950 [1940?]). English Word Lists: A Study of their Adaptability