ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a group of figures based on conflicts that, for different reasons and under different conditions, do not affect the complex meaning of an expression but take shape when the expression is used in communication. The conflict is strictly textual when it is located on the ideational level and is due to a lack of coherence between the content of a consistent expression and the text that contains it. Textual figures of the ideal type display two essential properties, which also make them clearly distinct from the figures of conceptual conflict: they are consistent utterances and they lack a focus. The absence of conceptual conflict implies that the figure has a contingent interpretative history but neither an internal structure nor a specific grammar. Within such an expression, it would be pointless to look for a distinction between a coherent frame and a conflicting focus.
