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The contribution is a brief summary of the concept of styleme in Slovak stylistics. At the same time it introduces the concept of styleme in the interactive understood stylistics. The main aim of the contribution is to point out at the effectiveness of the term styleme in contemporary stylistics. The term, introduced to stylistics by Jozef Mistrík, has approved itself as a proper tool for explaining complex stylistic phenomena and relations. While explaining the concept of styleme, the author follows some of the ideas of J. Mistrík, J. Findra, F. Miko, J. Horecký, J. Dolník. In her interactive and interdisciplinary concept of stylistics, styleme is introduced as a cognitive-pragmatic unit of stylistic quality. It is a part of (linguistic) consciousness, realized in a text. Together with the notion of norms, it is an important part of axiological competence. The process of stylization is a process of stylemes activating. The dominant configuration of the stylemes determines the so called expressive style.