I will think about how typographical conventions for representations of speech in the eighteenth century influenced the development of free indirect speech [FID] of this period.FID for both speech and for thought presentations are generally regarded as a style that allows for smooth transitions between narration and dialogue/thoughts in third-person narrative. The reader is guided by the author/narrator to easily read the passage presented in FIS, thanks to the lack of quotation marks as well as the verb to say and the attribution of the subject (such as 'Tom said/thought'), while maintaining the third person and the passed in the same way as narration. Modernist writers used FID in combination with other styles for "stream of consciousness" so that the reader can feel closely with the protagonist's train of thought. Virginia Woolf is one of the most successful writers in the experiment of this narrative technique. MB Parkes, an authority on paleography, states that "Woolf exercises greater control [than his precursors] over his readers' responses by means of punctuation."(1) In the passages presented in FID, the narrator does not intervene in the reader but he silently encourages her to experience a character's inner thoughts. Although the FID standard is therefore characterized by the absence of quotation marks, passages presented in Free Indirect Speech for Discursive Presentations [FIS] in Jane Austen's works are sometimes enclosed in quotation marks. FID passages have an ambiguous narrator voice and a character with whom it merges. However, when FID is used for a character's apparent speech (mainly within a dialogue with other characters), to help the r...... middle of the paper ...... his time (as quotation marks would normally not be used for IS). Consider this convention as a transitional process in terms of using quotation marks as quotation marks. In Austen's works, FIS is sometimes enclosed in quotation marks, the style of which is more visibly distinct than FIS without quotation marks embedded in the narrative. Furthermore, on rare occasions IS is also enclosed in quotation marks. (Like standard IS, the subject and verbs to say, such as 'said', are specified in such a sentence.) Therefore, in addition to the standard range of speech presentations between DS, FIS and IS, there is a wider range of speech presentations in Austen's work, including "IS" (as a sort of proto-FIS) and "FIS". This inconsistency with the convention on the use of quotation marks as punctuation marks could become a starting point for understanding the development of the FIS.