Applied Linguistics adjunct faculty Jedd Schrock recently interviewed on reviving the Kalapuya language

"You lose a language, you lose a culture,” says linguist Jedd Schrock, an adjunct faculty with PSU Applied Linguistics. "A culture and a language are really the same thing. Language represents how a group of people at a given time conceptualize the world. We’re all sort of stuck in our concepts of the world because we speak English. A language comes about because of a group of people’s experience. When you lose a language, you lose all of that human experience. That way of seeing the world goes away and we’re stuck with only the Eurocentric way of thinking about the world."

Schrock is creating a digital archive of Kalapuya language materials for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s cultural preservation department. Learn more