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As an example, the writer reveals his own ideas when he uses illocution markers like I recommend that, or I believe that, or, by using hedges like perhaps, might, and apparently and emphatics such as clearly, undoubtedly, and surely, which allows the writer to send signals to the reader about whether he is doubtful or sure about what he is pointing out.
Owing to this interaction, speakers often refer directly to the listener by means of, for instance, second-person pronouns and questions and they express their own thoughts and feelings by means of first-person pronouns, affective forms such as emphatics and amplifiers, and cognitive verbs such as think and feel.
the exclamation mark shares a chapter with the other emphatics, the dash, the question mark, and italics.
 
 
 
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