Acceso usuarios
Murcia, España
The importance of the press in the 19th century has been analysed from a variety of perspectives and is of great interest for a better understanding of the diachrony of Spanish, as it relates to a relatively recent period that has been neglected until a few years ago. But it also provides interesting data on the attitudes of speakers towards the most varied issues of linguistic change or, even, on the evolution of the discipline. For this reason, the aim of this paper is to approach the nineteenth-century press in the region of Murcia and to find out what attitudes it had towards language, whether the progress of the discipline was reflected in its pages or how it was perceived in terms of the uses attributed to the geolectal variety. In this way, it will be possible to check whether the smallest and least geographically widespread newspaper showed interest in the current linguistic uses and, consequently, whether any kind of debate was established in this respect. The main interest is to relate the results to one of the most unknown peripheries of Spanish.
