In the view of the author, conceptual figures, as pragmatic and gnoseologic categories are revealed by language on the level of syntax, phraseology, lexis and phonemes, which, besides their own specific features bear the generic characteristics of a superordinate type of conceptual figure as well. Figures are closely interrelated with the so called complex stylistic figures.

Based either on a dominant semantic feature or on a pragmatic framework, different types of figures are funcionally associated and built on one another forming complex figures. As figures are formed and developed alongside language itself, stylistics can be regarded as a functional grammar as well, since designation is achieved by grammatical categories. In this process the syntactic categories denoting semantic relationships are the signifier-components, or aesthetic figures.

Including tropes within the system of stylistic figures, the paper also discusses the grammar of the metaphors, and attempts at proving that metaphors cannot be interpreted without considering grammatical features.