Peter H Fries

Datos Biográficos

ID752067
NOMBREPeter H Fries
NOMBRESPeter H
APELLIDOFries
FIRMAFRIES P H
AFILIACIONESCentral Michigan University
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS6
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1979
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
ÍNDICE H2

  • Confrontation and support in bonobo-human discourse

    James D Benson, Peter H Fries et al.ARTICLEFunctions of Language2002

    As part of a program to explore the communicative abilities of bonobo apes within the human-ape culture at the Language Research Center at Georgia State University, we made two complementary analyses of a conversation between Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Kanzi. We made both a conversation analysis and a lexico-grammatical analysis of their interaction. The conversation analysis revealed the participants negotiating the interpersonal meanings of confro…

  • Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition

    David G Lockwood, Peter H Fries et al.BOOKFunctional Approaches to…2000

    This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics. The volume is organized into two sections. The first section ‘Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice’ starts with contr…

  • Discourse in Society

    Richard G McGarry, Peter H Fries et al.ARTICLELanguage1997

    Introduction Generic and Register Qualities of Texts and Their Realization Opinion Texts in Conversation Patterns of Information in Initial Position in English Generic Expectancies and Discoursal Surprises: John Donne's The Good Morrow Intertextuality and Text Semantics The Social Production of Language: History and Structures of Domination Knowledge and Laughter: An Approach to a Socio-Cognitive Linguistics A Systemic-Functional Semiotics of Art…

  • Lexico‐grammatical patterns and the interpretation of texts

    Peter H FriesARTICLEDiscourse Processes1992Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    It is well‐known that the meanings of sentences are affected by the contexts in which they are perceived. Texts create patterns of meaning which affect how the component sentences are interpreted in context. A careful study of a two‐paragraph text which contains a high concentration of matching relations shows one technique by which this process happens. Repetitions of the experiential relations expressed in the text, together with the matching c…

  • The structuring of information in written English text

    Open AccessPeter H FriesARTICLELanguage Sciences1992Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

  • Language features, textual coherence and reading

    Peter H FriesARTICLEWORD1986Citada por: 3Referencias: 6

    1986). Language features, textual coherence and reading. WORD: Vol. 37, Second UTA Conference on Linguistics and the Humanities, pp. 13-29

  • Grammatical Analysis

    Peter H Fries, Kenneth L Pike et al.ARTICLELanguage1979

  • Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition

    David G Lockwood, James E Copeland et al.BOOKFunctional Approaches to…

  • On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals

    Peter H Fries

    In recent years, a number of linguists have been interested in the flow of information in texts.1 I have been using a systemic-functional approach to discourse analysis to demonstrate the usefulness of the concept of Theme. As a part of that endeavour, it is necessary to develop a better description of Theme. Halliday has defined Theme in the following terms.