1. The roles of Translation in language policy
Anthony Pym

2. Where I speak from
“Extra-ordinary Professor” at the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch
President of the European Society for Translation Studies

3. Where I speak from Teaching in the Basque Country in 1979-1980
Working now in a Catalan-speaking university

4. Where I speak from
The EU project Mobility and Inclusion in Multilingual Europe (MIME)
In charge of the sub-project on “Mediation”
Public-service interpreting and translation
Lingua francas
Intercomprehension
Translation technologies

5. Grin’s trade-off model

6. What the model includes
Degrees of inclusion
Degrees of mobility
Social and economic costs

7. What the model omits Language rights Time
The affective values of languages
Sustainability
When and why policy is not needed

8. Language rights
There are none.

9. Equal languages
There are none.

10. Pure languages There are none.
We all work with sets of semiotic resources.
There are no “all-purpose” languages.

11. time

12. time

13. time

14. Affective values
Brigitta Busch (UWC): Language biographies for multilingual learning (2006)
The value of a language is performed, time and again.

15. Creating affective value.

16. sustainability Means are as important as ends. (Sustainability)
Mobility is a value:
Motorways (ends)
Public bicycles (means)
(Energy in systems)

17. Languages like grasses?
Co-authors of our laws?
Hence public education
And the building of a multilingual paradise on earth.

18. And translation? Short-term High-risk (high-value)
In combination with language learning