Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Metaphor, Simile and Truth -- Metaphor, empiricism and truth: A fresh look at seventeenth-century theories of figurative language -- Metaphor and truth in Rationalism and Romanticism -- Persuasion: between trope and truth -- Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth -- Truth, metaphor and counterfactual meaning -- 'Metaphorical' truth conditions, context, and discourse -- Metaphorical modes of perception and scanning. A comparative study of Japanese and English -- Natural Language Processing: Minds, brains, and programmes -- Pear-shaped and pint-sized: Comparative compounds, similes and truth -- "Money is ruthlessly finding its own level": Metaphor and metonymy in verb semantics -- 2. Metonymy, Synecdoche and Truth -- Between poetry and economy Metonymy as a semantic principle -- Metonymy in conceptualization, communication, language, and truth -- Synecdoche: A trope, a whole trope, and nothing but a trope? -- 3. Other Tropes and Truth -- Eironeia urbana -- Irony, analogy and truth -- Euphemism and truth -- Princess Antonomasia and the Truth: Two Types of Metonymic Relations -- "Mummy, I love you like a thousand ladybirds": Reflections on the emergence of hyperbolic effects and the truth of hyperboles