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From an ergative model vantage point, the patients construed themselves as Medium.
In over 20% of the total corpus, patients construed themselves as Actors of [intransitive] material processes which were [+scope] or [−scope].
As Fig. 2 shows, in 12.5% of the occasions the patients construed themselves as Actors performing actions that extend to an inanimate second participant.
The share of instances in which the patients construed themselves as Actors performing material actions that extend to a second animate participant was 0.6% (29 instances), a very small proportion of the material clauses.
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However, comparing the results of the instantiation of the process types as selected by patients construing themselves with that reported by Matthiessen (2015) still seems worthwhile.
The key entity, as was mentioned, was the patient and the main question was how the patient construes themselves and their role/s in the events that they are experiencing.
Pairing such analyses with a largescale concordance analysis, such as the one reported in this paper, could provide a better understanding of how individual advance cancer patients construe themselves.
It was also shown that while patients exerted agency over medication, food, medical equipment and medical procedure, pain, symptoms and side-effects, they did not construe themselves as Actors acting on cancer and time.
Converging evidence suggests that the way people represent (construe) themselves is very flexible and context-sensitive, especially with regard to the degree they perceive themselves as being dependent on, or independent from, their social environment (for a review, see Cross, Hardin, & Gercek-Swing, 2011).
On such views, actions are not individuals unless relations are themselves construed as tropes.
And although more specific arguments will be considered shortly, it also has seemed more or less undeniable to many philosophers that physical objects, at least as commonsensically construed, are not themselves literally part of that conscious experiential content, even though they are depicted or represented by various aspects of it.
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