Module: integration processes and alliances
Indirect reports of statements
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Indirect reports of statements
consist of a reporting clause and a that-clause. We can omit ‘that’, especially in informal situations. We need to make ‘backshift’ to the original verbs in indirect speech if time has passed between the moment of speaking and the time of the report. E.g.: a. Joseph Nye emphasizes that we have to think in very different terms about power. b. Joseph Nye emphasized that we had to think in very different terms about power. Do not change the tense in indirect speech if what a person said is still true or relevant or has not happened yet. Reporting verb in the Present Tense Reporting verb in the Past Tense emphasizes urges stresses cautions insists underlines explains suggests argues acknowledges notes underscores emphasized urged stressed cautioned insisted underlined explained suggested argued acknowledged noted underscored We are going to have to think in very different terms about what power is. That’s why these concepts of soft power and smart power are going to become increasingly important. China understands this. Hu Jintao, the Chinese President, told the 17th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party that China needed to invest more in its soft power, and it is. And that’s a smart thing for them to do. If you’re a country which has increasing hard power, of military and economic force, and your neighbors notice that, they are likely to be frightened and form alliances and coalitions to balance your power. But if you also can develop your soft power – make yourself attractive – then it is less likely that they will form those coalitions against you. So the Chinese are, in that sense, attempting a smart power strategy by combining soft power with hard power. In many ways, they are spending billions of dollars to do this: setting up Confucius institutes; creating a new broadcast system like Al Jazeera, but for the Chinese; they are making major efforts. On the other hand, the United States really hasn’t wrapped its mind much around soft power, or how to make smart power. Download 0,55 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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