Publications

Publication details [#23542]

Salmons, Joe. 1988. On the social function of some southern Indiana German-American dialect stories. Humor 1 (2) : 159–175.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | ethnic speech event | humor

Language as a subject

English, American | German

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

On the ethnic humor of the German-American bilingual communities of Dubois County, Indiana, which reveals local attitudes toward linguistic competence, bilingualism, Standard versus non-Standard German, and various kinds of language mixing, as well as reinforcement of ethnic group identity.