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Provincial Newspapers as Vehicles for Dialect Spread and Enregisterment: Insights from Nineteenth Century Devonshire Dialect Tissens, René Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid Filología Inglesa This paper takes provincial newspapers as the basis for a discussion on dialect spread and enregisterment during the nineteenth 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. 2025-01-09T15:59:39Z 2025-01-09T15:59:39Z 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No. 45 (2024) pags. 116-144 2531-1654 https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73458 10.24197/ersjes.45.2024.116-144 116 45 144 eng http://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/provincial-newspapers-dialect-enregisterment info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies