caa a22 4500 378900625 CHVBK 20180305123517.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041029xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/ijsl.2004.2004.170.1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ijsl.2004.2004.170.1 Reh Mechthild 1. Hamburg University. Multilingual writing: a reader-oriented typology — with examples from Lira Municipality (Uganda) [Elektronische Daten] [Mechthild Reh] Parallel to the current growth of societal and individual multilingualism, there is also a multiplication of the availability of and need for multilingual written texts of all types. Both the number and the type of such texts in a given area depend on a variety of factors, such as the number of languages present, language policy, the status of speakers, the self-esteem of speakers, the reader-orientation of text suppliers, etc., and thus the number and type of these texts reflect the social layering within a community. The article proposes a model for describing and analyzing multilingual written texts in a way that facilitates meaningful analyses both within and across regions, domains, and societies by using parameters such as spatial mobility of the object inscribed, visibility of multilingualism, and specific type of the arrangement of multilingual information (duplicating, fragmentary, overlapping, complementary). The model is exemplified on the basis of stationary multilingual written text as observed in Lira Town (Uganda) between 2000 and 2002. These and additional data are then used (a) to supply brief analyses for a number of linguistically visible domains (health, agriculture, bookshops, politics, advertising) by correlating the publicly visible written language use with the linguistic knowledge of the population, and (b) to discuss its potential influence on the status of the languages involved. © Walter de Gruyter Sociolinguistics nationallicence International Journal of the Sociology of Language Walter de Gruyter 2004/170(2004-10-29), 1-41 0165-2516 2004:170<1 2004 2004 ijsl https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.2004.2004.170.1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.2004.2004.170.1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Reh Mechthild 1. Hamburg University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of the Sociology of Language Walter de Gruyter 2004/170(2004-10-29), 1-41 0165-2516 2004:170<1 2004 2004 ijsl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter