dc_timing: Extract Timing Discourse Connectors in Context

In trinker/discon: Discourse Connectors Analysis

Description

Extract timing discourse connectors in context.

Usage

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

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 timing discourse connectors. Use c("", "") to not mark the timing 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

Returns returns a list of 2:

counts	A termco object of timing discourse marker counts.
timing	A trans_context object of timing discourse connectors in context.

References

Kalajahi, S. A. R., Abdullah, A. N., Mukundan, J., & Tannacito, D. J. (2012) Discourse connectors: An overview of the history, definition and classification of the term. World Applied Sciences Journal, 19(11), 1659-1673.

See Also

termco, trans_context

Examples

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

## Save externally use .doc or .txt
## print(out[[2]], file="timing.doc")

trinker/discon documentation built on May 31, 2019, 8:42 p.m.