dc_negator: Extract Negator Discourse Connectors in Context

In trinker/discon: Discourse Connectors Analysis

Description

dc_negator - Extract negator discourse connectors in context.

dc_negator_sub - Extract negator discourse connectors in context typified as words, prefix, or contractions (not type).

Usage

dc_negator(text.var, grouping.var, n.before = 1, tot = FALSE,
  n.after = n.before, ord.inds = TRUE, markup = c("<<", ">>"),
  name = "negator", ...)

dc_negator_sub(text.var, grouping.var, n.before = 1, tot = FALSE,
  n.after = n.before, ord.inds = TRUE, markup = c("<<", ">>"),
  name = "negator_sub", ...)

Arguments

text.var	The text variable.
grouping.var	The grouping variables. Also takes a single grouping variable or a list of 1 or more grouping variables.
n.before	The number of rows before the indexed occurrence.
tot	logical. If TRUE condenses sub-units (e.g., sentences) into turns of talk for that grouping.var.
n.after	The number of rows after the indexed occurrence.
ord.inds	logical. If TRUE inds is ordered least to greatest.
markup	A character vector of length two indicating the left (element 1) and right (element 2) boundary markers to use to highlight the negator discourse connectors. Use c("", "") to not mark the negator discourse markers.
name	A string indicating the name to search for within the internal data sets, typically the function's name. Generally, for internal use.
...	Other arguments passed to termco.

Value

dc_negator - Returns returns a list of 2:

counts	A termco object of negator discourse connector counts.
negative_words	A trans_context object of negative words (e.g., not, no, none, never) discourse connectors in context.

dc_negator_sub - Returns returns a list of 4:

counts	A termco object of negator discourse connector counts.
negative_words	A trans_context object of negative words (e.g., not, no, none, never) discourse connectors in context.
negative_prefix	A trans_context object of negative prefix (e.g., dis-, il-, im-, ir-, non-, un-) discourse connectors in context. Note that in- and a- prefixes are ignored as these letters begin many non-negator words as well.
negative_contractions	A trans_context object of negative contractions discourse connectors in context.

References

Ryan, G. W. & Bernard, H. R. (2003). Techniques to identify themes. Field Methods. 15(1), 85-109. doi: 10.1177/1525822X02239569

See Also

termco, trans_context

Examples

with(pres_debates2012[1:200, ], dc_negator(dialogue, person))

out <- with(pres_debates2012[1:200, ], dc_negator_sub(dialogue, person))
out[1]
out[2]
out[3]
out[4]
plot(out)

## Save externally use .doc or .txt
## print(out[[3]], file="negator_prefix.doc")

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