6.02 Emphasis

Italics can serve to indicate emphasis in the following cases:

• when the writer uses an unexpected word:

  What differences might we expect to see in human behaviour if honesty were shown to be the worst policy?

• when two words are contrasted:

  I did not say we would go: I said we might go.

• when the writer wishes to stress a word that would not normally be stressed in the sentence:

  Why was he chosen to chair the committee?

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