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56 LITERACY IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE
Figure 4.4 Concept map 1: blood circulation
causal interpretation: ‘we have just dropped off oxygen and we picked up some
carbon dioxide’ – ‘because we had dropped off oxygen, we (could/did) pick up
carbon dioxide’; or, ‘we have entered the liver where we had a thorough wash’.
At times the lexically expressed relations – as, and (because) – do this job of
