Analyzing Literacy Practice - CPLS - University of British Columbia

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Our Purpose codes, as stated previously, reflect the ways that particular literacy
events mediated social activity within socio-cultural contexts. They document how people
used literacy behavior to mediate their lives in the different case studies. To represent the
interrelationships between function and purpose and to help us conceptually maintain this
focus, we employed grammatical relationships within the token code names, themselves.
Thus, we may have a person reading an application form to learn what information is
needed (function) in order to apply for admission to college (Purpose). To always begins a
Function code , and In order to always begins a Purpose code . While the codes are
referred to as Function and Purpose, these are in fact shorthand for communicative function
and social purpose. Following (Table 4) are some examples of our identified social
purposes for which people used literacy across the CPLS case studies. The CPLS coding
manual includes more than 300 different Purpose codes, reflecting the multitude of ways
that literacy mediates social activity around the world.