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Publication details [#30237]

Thompson, Chad L. 1996. Yodeling of the Indiana Swiss Amish. Anthropological Linguistics 38 (3) : 495–520.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language use | social interaction | song | traditional society

Language as a subject

German, Allemanian

Place, Publisher

Indiana University

ISBN

0003-5483

Annotation

This paper discusses the Swiss Amish practice of yodeling, which functions as a form of entertainment, as a symbol of separation from the non-Swiss Amish communities and from the English-speaking world, and as an integral part of some types of social interaction.