Fries

ICAME Journal No. 34Section 1.1 provides a bit of his personal history. 1.1.1 shows his relation inage to other linguists of his generation. 1.1.2 lists some selected events, interestsand publications in his life.1.1 History1.1.1 Charles C. Fries and selected other linguists of his generation:Charles C. Fries 1887–1967Leonard Bloomfield 1887–1949J. R. Firth 1890–1960Louis Hjelmslev 1899–1965Roman Jakobson 1896–1980Daniel Jones 1881–1967Edward Sapir 1884–19391.1.2 Selected events and publications in Fries’s career 3(Dates associated with specific titles indicate dates of publication of thoseworks. Titles with asterisks involved the analysis of some specific corpus of dataand were begun several years before publication.)~1911 Teaching classical Greek (5 years). (This experience stimulatedthe initial development of his ‘Oral Approach’ for teaching foreignlanguages.)~1916 Moved to teaching English literature and composition. Becameinterested in problems of teaching Literature, and in teachingEnglish in schools (English to native speakers of English).Became interested in the history of English and its relevance forthe language features his students were writing.~1918 Went to the University of Michigan to study rhetoric with F. N.Scott. Later he moved into the history of English with ProfessorSamuel Moore.1922 Received Ph. D. in English at the University of Michigan. Dissertation:The periphrastic future with shall and will in ModernEnglish1926 The teaching of literature (with Hanford and Steves.)1925 *The periphrastic future with shall and will in Modern English.92