Writing and Language Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-21-2018
Abstract
A major challenge for authorities in the modern world is the linguistic integration of minorities. In this context, language policies play a key role as authorities are increasingly faced with the challenge of adjusting their language policies in order to secure the linguistic rights and thus the integration of their multilingual populations. In multilingual democracies, these language policies must include choices about the use or non-use of translation. These choices, when they are systematic, become policies of their own in terms of translation. Thus, translation policies arise in part as a consequence of language policies, and there can be no language policy without an attendant translation policy. This article sheds light on the role of translation policies as part of language policy. Specifically, it shows that translation policies can be a tool for integration and recognition or exclusion and neglect of speakers of minority languages and therefore deserve special attention. This is done by comparing the translation policies adopted in Flanders and Wales, both as applied to autochthonous linguistic minorities and allochthonous linguistic minorities. Lessons can be learned from the similarities and differences of translation policies in these two regions.
Recommended Citation
Meylaerts, Reine, and Gabriel González Núñez. “No Language Policy without Translation Policy: A Comparison of Flanders and Wales.” Language Problems and Language Planning, vol. 42, no. 2, John Benjamins, June 2018, pp. 196–219, https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00028.mey
Publication Title
Language Problems and Language Planning
DOI
10.1075/lplp.00028.mey
Comments
© 2016, John Benjamins Publishing Company. Published online: 21 June 2018. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00028.mey.