Provincial Newspapers as Vehicles for Dialect Spread and Enregisterment: 19th-Century Devon as Introductory Example

This paper takes provincial newspapers as the basis for a discussion on dialect spread and enregisterment during the 19th century. It departs from the premise that, during this era of nationwide diaspora and industrial advancement, periodicals served as the main means of entertainment and identity e...

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Autor: Pérez Tissens, René
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/156687
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/156687
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:provincial-newspapers
Devonshire dialect
19th-century
enregisterment
5506.13 Historia de la Literatura
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Sumario:This paper takes provincial newspapers as the basis for a discussion on dialect spread and enregisterment during the 19th century. It departs from the premise that, during this era of nationwide diaspora and industrial advancement, periodicals served as the main means of entertainment and identity expression. For this purpose, it takes two letters submitted by R. Giles to the North Devon Journal in 1885, where his use of the Devonshire dialect is available for analysis. It aims to explore the most remarkable dialectal features documented in his submissions in an attempt to justify my claim that provincial press could have contributed to an early process of enregisterment in dialects