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Stylistic markers in lexis The essence of the style is to use proper words in proper situation. Jonathan Swift The previous chapter discussed syntactic categories. The choices a language user makes between these categories are limited: such as sentence types, clause types, phrase types, tense, aspect, voice, number, and some others. These categories have very general meanings. They form only skeletons of sentences which should be fleshed out by lexical choices. The examination of lexical choice is mainly an analysis of content words, involving the following aspects: Are the words simple or