object_pronoun_type: Count Object Pronouns Per Grouping Variable

In trinker/qdap: Bridging the Gap Between Qualitative Data and Quantitative Analysis

Description

Count the number of object pronouns per grouping variables.

Usage

object_pronoun_type(
  text.var,
  grouping.var = NULL,
  object.pronoun.list = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

text.var	The text variable
grouping.var	The grouping variables. Default NULL generates one word list for all text. Also takes a single grouping variable or a list of 1 or more grouping variables.
object.pronoun.list	A named list of object pronouns. See Details for more.
...	Other arguments passed to termco

Details

The following object pronoun categories are the default searched terms:

• me = c(" me ", " my ", " mine ")

• us = c(" us ", " our ", " ours ")

• you = c(" you'd ", " you'll ", " you're ", " you've ", " you ", " your ")

• him = c(" him ", " his ")

• her = c(" her ", " hers ")

• them = c(" them ")

• their = c(" their ", "theirs ")

• it = c(" it'd ", " it'll ", " it's ", " it ")

Value

Returns a list, of class "object_pronoun_type", of data frames regarding object pronoun word counts:

preprocessed	List of uncollapsed dataframes (raw, prop, rnp) of the class "termco" that contain all searchable object pronouns.
raw	raw word counts by grouping variable
prop	proportional word counts by grouping variable; proportional to each individual's object pronoun use
rnp	a character combination data frame of raw and proportional object pronoun use

See Also

subject_pronoun_type, pronoun_type

Examples

## Not run: 
dat <- pres_debates2012
dat <- dat[dat$person %in% qcv(ROMNEY, OBAMA), ]
(out <- object_pronoun_type(dat$dialogue, dat$person))
plot(out)
plot(out, 2)
plot(out, 3)
plot(out, 3, ncol=2)

scores(out)
counts(out)
proportions(out)
preprocessed(out)

plot(scores(out))
plot(counts(out))
plot(proportions(out))

## End(Not run)

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