The present article is concerned with overt devices of textual cohesion in regard to their capacity for acting as stylistic markers. It aims at showing that textual links differ not only in the representation of the basic types in different functional styles, but that there are also differences in particular items and uses where different styles display comparable representation of the same type of textual link.
Of the different textual links attention is paid to those which are usually treated in hypersyntax, i.e. intersentential ties of a grammatical character. These include devices of coreference and pronominalization (which largely coincide), ellipsis and conjunction, the last being on the borderline between grammar and lexis. Of course, all these points also occur within the sentence, but here they contribute not to textual but to internal sentence cohesion, and hence are left out of account.