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Aristotle. The Art of Rhetoric. London: Penguin, 1991.

Bacon, Francis. The Essays. London: Penguin, 1985.

Belot, Michèle, and Marco Francesconi. Can Anyone Be “The One”? London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2006.

Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Brownell, Judi. Building Active Listening Skills. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1986.

Buss, David M. The Evolution of Desire. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

C., S. The Art of Complaisance. London: John Starkey, 1673.

Casanova, Giacomo. The Story of My Life. London: Penguin, 2001.

Casey, Neil. Social Organisation of Topic in Natural Conversation. Plymouth: Plymouth Polytechnic, 1981.

Castiglione, Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier. London: Penguin, 2003.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. On Obligations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Collier, Jane. An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2006.

Correll, Conway Linda. Brainstorming Reinvented. London: Response Books, 2004.

Craveri, Benedetta. The Age of Conversation. New York: New York Review of Books, 2005.

Dean, Greg. Step by Step to Stand-up Comedy. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000.

Elyot, Sir Thomas. The Book of the Governor. London: J. M. Dent, 1962.

Fisher, Roger, William Ury, and Bruce Patton. Getting to Yes. London: Arrow Books, 1987.

Goldstein, Noah J., Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini. Yes! London: Profile Books, 2007.

Gourevitch, Philip, ed. The Paris Review Interviews, I. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2006.

Gristwood, Sarah. Elizabeth and Leicester. London: Bantam Press, 2007.

Guazzo, Stefano. Civile Conversation. London: Constable, 1925.

Hickman, Katie. Courtesans. London: Harper Perennial, 2004.

Hirstein, William. Brain Fiction. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.

Humphrey, Nicholas. Seeing Red. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Hunt, Leigh. Table-Talk. London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1902.

Irwin, Robert, ed. The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature. London: Penguin Classics, 2006.

Karpf, Anne. The Human Voice. London: Bloomsbury, 2006.

Leech, Geoffrey N. Principles of Pragmatics. London: Longman, 1983.

Levinson, Dr. Stephen C. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Levinson, Dr. Stephen C., and Dr. M. L. Owen. “Topic Organisation in Conversation,” 6810/2. London: Social Science Research Council, 1981.

Macdonald, Scot. Propaganda and Information Warfare in the Twenty-First Century. London: Routledge, 2007.

Malloch, Stephen N. “Mothers and infants and communicative musicality.” Musicae Scientiae (Liège: ESCOM, 2000).

Masuda, Sayo. Autobiography of a Geisha. London: Vintage, 2004.

Mercer, Neil. Words and Minds. London: Routledge, 2000.

Miller, Stephen. Conversation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Monaghan, Leila, and Jane E. Goodman, eds. A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007.

Monmouth, Geoffrey of. The History of the Kings of Britain. London: Penguin, 1966.

Morgan, John. Debrett’s New Guide to Etiquette & Modern Manners. London: Headline, 1999.

Nilsen, Don L. F. Humor Scholarship. London: Greenwood Press, 1993.

O’Connell, Sanjida. Mindreading. London: Heinemann, 1997.

Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. London: Penguin, 1995.

Poole, Steven. Unspeak. London: Abacus, 2007.

Provine, Robert R. Laughter. London: Faber and Faber, 2000.

Ridley, Matt. The Origins of Virtue. London: Penguin, 1996.

Romaine, Suzanne. Language in Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Rovine, Harvey. Silence in Shakespeare. Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1987.

Runciman, W. G. The Social Animal. London: HarperCollins, 1998.

Schwabe, Kerstin, and Susanne Winkler, eds. On Information Structure, Meaning and Form. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007.

Shapiro, James. 1599. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.

Shepherd, Margaret. The Art of Civilized Conversation. New York: Broadway Books, 2006.

Shōnagon, Sei. The Pillow Book. London: Penguin, 2006.

Stevenson,