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The author discusses some debated or debatable issues pertaining to a new encyclopaedia of figures of speech, to be published in May 2008. This book runs into 55 printed sheets and will be the first of its kind ever published in Hungarian. The present paper explains how those issues are resolved in the encyclopedia. First, the Team of Style Research responsible for the compilation of the encyclopedia is briefly introduced and the reasons why the team started research on figures of speech are enumerated. Next, the definition of 'figure of speech' that the team used is given ('Figures of speech are established and inherited linguistic forms - word forms, phrases, or expressions - whose use makes the style of an utterance more effective. Therefore, they are structures (forms) and operations (functions) at the same time'). The paper is concluded by certain practical issues concerning the structure of entries.