Eva Juarros-daussa

Intergenerational transmission is one of the main ways of evaluating and predicting the vitality and future of any language. Especially in cases of linguistic revitalization of minority languages in multilingual contexts, it is crucial to examine attitudes and uses determining linguistic choices at home.
We present a comparison between Catalan and Galician transmission patterns in their original territories, where they are official languages, and in a migration context, New York City (NYC), where they receive no governmental support. Quantitative data in Catalonia and Galicia are obtained from official surveys, and reveal direct effects of their different respective linguistic policies. Data on the migratory context provide from qualitative interviews and a quantitative questionnaire answered by NYC resident families in which one of the parents was born and grew in Catalonia or Galicia. Our analysis shows that there are two different transmission patterns, which depend not so much on context but origin: independently of profession of personal identity, Catalans more than Galicians present attitudes and behaviours leading to maintaining their minority language, marginalize Spanish and host positive general ideas about additive multilingualism. Data can be interpreted as a direct result of the different linguistic policies, both in the short and long terms, and in the immediate and distant contexts.