The online exhibit opens by pointing out all the ways that language intersects with biology, culture, and society across time and space.
Claire Bowern curates the 2020-2021 Bass Model Research Collection all about linguistics
Claire Bowern curated this year’s Bass Library Model Research Collection. The collection can be browsed in the Bass Library or explored via the online exhibit.
Through print, speech, and sign, we use language to interact with the world around us. Language provides the labels for the social categories we use to describe the world. It’s beautiful, and it’s also systematic. Yet it’s so ubiquitous we often take it for granted. This Model Research Collection makes language more visible by showing the different ways it contributes to the study of our lives: how language opens a window into the mind and brain, how children acquire language, how languages are lost and created around the world, how we can do archaeology with words and use language to study the past.
Congratulations to Claire for this achievement and for curating a collection that highlights linguistics!