I will reflect on how typographical conventions for depictions of speech in the 18th century influenced the development of Free Indirect Speech [FID] from this period.FID for speech and presentations of thoughts are generally considered to be a style that allows for fluid changes between the narrative and the dialogues/thoughts in the third-person narrative. The reader is guided by the author/narrator to read the passage presented in FIS smoothly, thanks to the absence of quotation marks as well as the verb to say and the attribution of the subject (such as 'Tom said/thought' ), while it retains the third person and the past tense in the same way as in the story. Modernist writers used FID in combination with other styles for "stream of consciousness" so that the reader could feel closely with the protagonist's train of thoughts. Virginia Woolf is one of the most successful writers in experimenting with this narrative technique. MB Parkes, an authority on palaeography, states that "Woolf exerted greater control [than her precursors] over her readers' responses by means of punctuation. » (1) In the passages presented in FID, the narrator does not intervene in the reader but silently encourages him to experience the inner thoughts of a character. Although the FID standard is thus characterized by the absence of quotation marks, passages presented in Free Indirect Discourse for Speech Presentations [FIS] in the works of Jane Austen are sometimes surrounded by quotation marks. FID passages have an ambiguous narrator's voice and a character confused with it. However, when the FID is used for a character's apparent speech (mainly in dialogue with other characters), in order to help middle of paper...... his tense (in quotation mark form would not be generally not used for IS). He views this convention as a transitional process in terms of the use of backquotes as quotation marks. In Austen's works, FIS is sometimes surrounded by quotation marks, the style of which is more visibly distinct than FIS without quotation marks embedded in the narrative. Additionally, IS is, on rare occasions, also surrounded by quotation marks. (Like standard IS, the subject and verbs of saying, such as "he said", are specified in such a sentence.) Therefore, in addition to the standard range of vocal presentations between DS, FIS and IS, There is a wider range of vocal presentations in Austen's work, including "IS" (as a sort of proto-FIS) and "FIS". This inconsistency in the convention of using commas as punctuation marks could become a clue to understanding the development of FIS..