Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of figures/List of tables -- Introduction -- 1. Words as signs in the De Dialectica -- 2. On the conditions and possibilities of knowing: philosophy of semiosis in Augustine's De magistro -- 3. Of 'things' and 'signs' in Augustine's De Doctrina christiana -- 4. Mala fide communication: deception, misleading, and lying -- 5. Image, likeness, and falsity: from Soliloquia to De Trinitate -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- List of persons