ttr: Perform the frequency profiles of metaphors in Rajeg (2019,...

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

Generate a set of basic frequency profiles of (i) token frequency, (ii) type frequency, and (iii) type per token ratio (TTR) of a particular schema (e.g., conceptual metaphor as a conceptual schema, or word-formation pattern as a morphological, constructional schema).

Usage

ttr(df = NULL, schema_var = "metaphors", lexunit_var = "lu", float_digits = 2)

Arguments

df	the raw data frame containing the schemas and their linguistic instantiations (e.g., the phd_data_metaphor.rda in the case of the thesis).
schema_var	character string of the column name for the schema variable in the data frame (i.e., "metaphors" in the phd_data_metaphor.rda).
lexunit_var	character string of the column name for the lexical unit variable realising the schema in the data frame (i.e., "lu" in the phd_data_metaphor.rda).
float_digits	integer indicating the retained floating points from the calculation. The default is 2.

Details

As mentioned above, the ttr() function can be extended beyond its use for the thesis in Rajeg (2019). It can be used to generate the three frequency profiles of a set of morphological constructional schemas in relation to their manifesting words. For instance, we can use ttr() to determine the type and type/token ratio of two word-formation patterns, contrasting their productivity. This can be done as long as the input df contains raw data with two columns: one representing the morphological schema and the other one representing the linguistic instantiations of each of the schema.

Value

A tibble data frame (tbl_df) sorted in decreasing order of the token frequency of the schemas.

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.

Examples

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

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