
Xaquin Loredo
Xaquín Loredo is a Psychologist and technician of the Seminar of Sociolinguistics of the RealAcademia Galega (RAG). Besides his research work for RAG, he has also collaborated inseveral projects for other institutions such as the Department of Evolutionary Psychology andEducation of the Faculty of Psychology of USC, Institute of Educational Quality (ICE) orConsello da Cultura Galega (CCG). He participated in evaluation studies on the Galiciansociolinguistic situation centered in different contexts and with different methodologies such asthe realization of: Galician according to youth , Sociolinguistic Map of Galicia, Language Useand Language Attitudes in Galician, Assessment of the situation of Galician Language andLiterature Teaching in Compulsory Secondary Education, Evaluation of the bilingualcompetence in students at the end of compulsory education in Galician and Spanish languages.In recent years, the activity is focused on an analysis of the situation and the demolinguisticevolution of Galician, which is reflected in the publication Lingua e Sociedade.Thesociolinguistic evolution 1992-2013 (Monteagudo, Loredo, Vázquez, 2016) and in the study ofthe Practices and linguistic attitudes of the youth in Galicia (Consello da Cultura, 2017).Atpresent, he si carrying out two pilot projects focused on the breakdown of the intergenerationaltransmission in the region of Santiago de Compostela and the evolution of the stereotypes in theyouth of Pontevedra during the last fifteen years.
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Although the Galician language currently enjoys a high demographic vitality, factors such as the decline in Galician speakers (especially among the younger population living in urban/semi-urban domains) and the interruption in the processes of intergenerational transmission raise doubts about the future of the minority language. In this situation, it is relevant to study the role of the different social agents involved in the language maintenance and revitalisation discourses, especially the role of family members in this process to redirect the ineffective language policies that are being implemented in Galicia since the beginning of the Autonomy. The purpose of this article is to offer a typology of different family sociolinguistic profiles while studying their temporal evolution and spatial distribution. The intention is also to analyse the different linguistic strategies these families employ to maintain or revitalise Galician.