‘Style’ refers to the meaningful deployment of language variation in written and spoken discourse, to the particular way that discourse is formed and structured and that it is interpreted by recipients as socially and interactionally relevant (Sandig & Selting 1997). Stylistics has incorporated ideas from other linguistic fields and has seen the development of several distinct approaches: traditional, mostly structuralist, stylistics was followed by pragmatic stylistics, text linguistic stylistics, sociolinguistic stylistics and interactional stylistics. The essay discusses in detail sample data and methdology of an interactional stylistic analysis, which focusses on styles of speaking in conversational interaction.