get_cic_meta_lu: Retrieve the conventionalised Lexical Units of a metaphor

In gederajeg/happyr: The Accompanying R Package for Rajeg's (2019) PhD Thesis Titled "Metaphorical Profiles and Near Synonyms: A Corpus-based Study of Indonesian Words for Happiness"

Description

The function helps filter out LUs of a metaphor that can be considered as conventional linguistic instances (cf. Vergara Wilson, 2014, for the way to determine CIC, which stands for "conventionalised instances of constructions").

Usage

get_cic_meta_lu(metaphor = NULL, df_ttr_out = NULL)

Arguments

metaphor	regular expressions for the relevant metaphor.
df_ttr_out	the tibble as the output of ttr.

Value

A tibble data frame

References

• Rajeg, G. P. W. (2019). Metaphorical profiles and near-synonyms: A corpus-based study of Indonesian words for HAPPINESS (PhD Thesis). Monash University. Melbourne, Australia. https://doi.org/10.26180/5cac231a97fb1.

• Vergara Wilson, D. (2014). Categorization and Constructional Change in Spanish Expressions of "becoming". Leiden: Brill.

Examples

ttr_metaphor <- ttr(df = phd_data_metaphor,
                    schema_var = "metaphors",
                    lexunit_var = "lu",
                    float_digits = 2)

get_cic_meta_lu("possessable", ttr_metaphor)

gederajeg/happyr documentation built on Dec. 27, 2021, 3:24 a.m.