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• Oral communication -- Study and teaching
• Oral communication -- Study and teaching (Higher)
• Oral communication -- United States
• Conversation
• Conversation analysis
• Folklore -- Performance
• Oral interpretation
• Oral tradition
• Paralinguistics
• Public speaking
• Speech processing systems

• Oral transmission
• Speech communication
• Verbal communication

• The language of the classroom; meanings communicated in high school teaching. (Institute of Psychological Research, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1963), by Arno A. Bellack, Joel Robert Davitz, and Columbia University Teachers College Institute of Psychological Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhetoric and communication : studies in the University of Illinois tradition (Published for the Department of Speech Communication by the University of Illinois Press, 1976), by Richard Murphy, Marie Hochmuth Nichols, Karl Richards Wallace, Hermann Georg Stelzner, Jane Blankenship, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Speech Communication (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nurse-patient communication; a manual for public health nurses in northern New Mexico (U.S. Public Health Service], 1967), by Robert C. Hanson, Lyle Saunders, New Mexico. Dept. of Public Health, and Colorado. University. Bureau of Sociological Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Realistic radio communications in pilot simulator training (Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation Research ;, 2000), by Judith Bürki-Cohen and United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Platform and laboratory projects for Speech I. A manual for the student (Harper & brothers, 1929), by Henry Lee Ewbank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech; a course in fundamentals (Scott, Foresman, 1963), by S. Judson Crandell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Technically speaking: oral communication for engineers, scientists, and technical personnel (McGraw-Hill, 1963), by Harold Weiss and James B. McGrath (page images at HathiTrust)
• First principles of speech training (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956), by Elizabeth Avery, Vera A. Sickels, and Jane Dorsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coding verbal interactions in a prototype future force command and control simulation (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2004), by Paula J. Durlach and U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Simulator Systems Research Unit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Don't talk, communicate. (Navy Publications & Printing Service, Dept. of the Navy, 1980), by United States. Navy Publications and Printing Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The theory of public speaking an address (Murley & Gurnhum, 1899), by B. F. Messervy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laws and practice of chess; together with an analysis of the openings, and a treatise on end games (Virtue & co., 1876), by Howard Staunton and Robert B. Wormald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Premium essays (New-England Publishing, 1880), by Horace H. Morgan and John W. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message repetition, operating characteristics, and confusion matrices in speech communication (Indiana University Hearing and Communication Laboratory, 1957), by James P Egan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essentials of oral communication (Saint Louis, 1943), by Donald Cross Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analysis of tower (ground) controller-pilot voice communications (Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Research and Development;, 1995), by Judith Bürki-Cohen, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.), and United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effect of jaw restriction on speech intelligibility (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio : Wright Air Development Center, Air Research and Development Command, United States Air Force, 1952, 1952), by Ronald Gordon Hansen, United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command, and Wright Air Development Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Articulation testing methods II (Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, Harvard University ;, 1944), by James P. Egan, United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee, and Harvard University. Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talking to read and write : opportunities for literate talk in one primary classroom (National Reading Research Center, 1995), by Lee Galda, Anthony D. Pellegrini, and Betty Shockley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Program in oral and written communication : grades one to six. (Fresno, CA : Fresno Public Schools, 1939., 1939) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A student handbook in oral communication (Burgess, 1962), by Paul J Seymour (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The lure of the forest : oral histories from the national forests in California (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region ;, 2005), by Victor W. Geraci and United States. Forest Service. Pacific Southwest Region (page images at HathiTrust)

• Large scale assessment of oral communication skills : kindergarten through grade 12 (ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, National Institute of Education ;, 1984), by Donald L. Rubin, John A. Daly, Nancy A. Mead, John Daly, ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Speech Communication Association, and National Institute of Education (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Glossary of terms frequently used in acoustics : psycho acoustics; speech communication, underwater acoustics, shock and vibration, physical acoustics, ultrasonics, noise control (American Institute of Physics, 1960), by Horace Maynard Trent and Betty E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Large scale assessment of oral communication skills : kindergarten through grade 12 (ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, National Institute of Education ;, 1984), by Donald L. Rubin, John A. Daly, Nancy A. Mead, John Daly, ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Speech Communication Association, and National Institute of Education (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Communicating is a powerful tool for the 21st century Air Force (Dept. of the Air Force, 1997), by United States Department of the Air Force (page images at HathiTrust)

• Timing control in speech production (Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1977), by Carol Ann Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech (with workbooks; Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016), by Rachel Hilary Brown (PDF files with commentary at ushmm.org)

• Assessing oral communication skills (The Section, 1982) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Assessing speaking skills : issues of feasibility, reliability, validity and bias (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1980), by Nancy A. Mead and National Assessment of Educational Progress (Project) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Large scale assessment of oral communication skills : kindergarten through grade 12 (ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, National Institute of Education ;, 1984), by Donald L. Rubin, John A. Daly, Nancy A. Mead, John Daly, ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Speech Communication Association, and National Institute of Education (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhetoric of Conversation: or, Bridles and Spurs for the Management of the Tongue, by George Winfred Hervey (page images at MOA)
• Gendering Talk (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2003), by Robert Hopper (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The art of conversation (The Penn pub. co., 1900), by J. P. Mahaffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Éloges de Madame Geoffrin, contemporaine de Madame Du Deffand, par MM. Morellet, Thomas et d'Alembert, suivis de lettres de Madame Geoffrin et à Madame Geoffrin : et d'un essai sur la conversation, etc., etc. (H. Nicolle, 1812), by André Morellet, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, Jean Le Rond d' Alembert, and M. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation (E. P. Dutton and Co., 1927), by Olive Heseltine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culture by conversation (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1907), by Robert Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discursos leídos ante s. m. el rey don Alfonso XIII el 17 de febrero de 1924 en la recepción pública del excmo. sr. conde de las Navas, en la Real academia española. (Gráficas reunidas, 1924), by Juan Gualberto López-Valdemoro y de Quesada Navas, Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano Viñaza, and Real Academia Española (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on conversation (The Macmillan company, 1927), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kindred arts; conversation and public speaking. (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• The civile conversation of M. Steeven Guazzo (Constable and co., ltd;, 1925), by Stefano Guazzo, Edward Sullivan, Bartholomew Yong, and George Pettie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talks on talking (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1916), by Grenville Kleiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mastery of speech, a course in eight parts on general speech, business talking and public speaking, what to say and how to say it under all conditions (Independent corporation, 1918), by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lost art of conversation (Sturgis & Walton company, 1910), by Horatio Sheafe Krans (page images at HathiTrust)
• A-B-C of correct speech and the art of conversation (Harper & brothers, 1916), by Florence Howe Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Learning to converse (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1855), by Old Humphrey and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation : twelve golden rules (Correct English Publishing Co., 1921), by Josephine Turck Baker and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pocket book of good society. (Geo. A. Leavitt, 1850), by Cairns Collection of American Women Writers and George A. Leavitt & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il galateo (G.B. Paravia & c., 1921), by Giovanni Della Casa and Ugo Scoti-Bertinelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation; what to say and how to say it (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1912), by Mary Greer Conklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mastery of speech, a course in eight parts on general speech, business talking and public speaking, what to say and how to say it under all conditions (New York, Independent Corporation, 1919), by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation, with directions for self education. (Carleton, 1869), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talking well; a book on the art of conversation (Macmillan, 1924), by Maurice G. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of the art of conversation (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1888), by J. P. Mahaffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dei lettori e dei parlatori; saggi due. (Tip. Andreola, 1842), by Giuseppe Bianchetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Con amore"; or, Critical chapters. (Tinsley Brothers, 1868), by Justin McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talking : an essay (Harper & brothers, 1992), by J. B. Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to carry on a conversation (Sterling Pub. Co., 1959), by Grace Stuart Nutley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints on conversation (Sold by F.C. and J. Rivington ... Printed by Messrs. Trewman and Co., Exeter, 1819), by Laurent Bordelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Galateo: (riprodotto secondo l'ed. veneziana del 1558) (F. Vallardi, 1910), by Giovanni Della Casa and Carlo Steiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The instructional conversation : teaching and learning in social activity (National Center for Research in Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, 1991), by Roland G. Tharp and Ronald Gallimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructional conversations and their classroom application (National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, 1991), by Claude Nestor Goldenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de briller en société et de se conduire dans toutes les circonstances de la vie. (Maresq, 1851), by Louis Nicolas Bascherelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talking business (The Ronald press company, 1920), by John Mantle Clapp and L.N. Andres (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of conversing : written for the instruction of youth in the polite manners and language of the drawing-room (James French, 1846), by Society of Gentlemen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del lettori e del parlatori; saggi due. (F. Le Monnier, 1858), by Giuseppe Bianchetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rhetoric of conversation, or, Bridles and spurs for the management of the tongue (Harper & Brothers, 1872), by George Winfred Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation ; its faults and its graces (James Munroe and Co., 1855), by Andrew P. Peabody, Parry Gwynne, and Francis Trench (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dictionary of literary conversation. (J. Ridgway) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la charité dans les conversations. (Régis Ruffet et Cie., 1872), by Paul Huguet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation, with directions for self education. (Carleton, 1865), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Culture by conversation (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1908), by Robert Waters (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ability to converse (H. Frowde, 1912), by Stanley Morgan Bligh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation, with directions for self education. (Carleton., 1868), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation : its faults and its graces (Lee & Shepard Co., 1867), by Andrew P. Peabody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain speaking : a theory and grammar of spontaneous discourse (Bolt Beranek and Newman ; [for sale by NTIS, Springfield, Va.], 1981), by Rachel Reichman, United States. Office of Naval Research, and Beranek Bolt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of the art of conversation (Macmillan, 1887), by J. P. Mahaffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian Weisens Politischer Redner, das ist: Kurtze und eigentliche Nachricht, wie ein sorgfältiger Hofmeister seine untergebene zu der Wolredenheit anführen Soll ... (By T. Ritzschens sel. erben zu finden, 1679), by Christian Weise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Table talk in the home (American institute of child life, 1913), by American institute of child life (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on life (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1901), by W. Robertson Nicoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Use of the tongue (R. Meacham, 1835), by Enoch W. Freeman, John Ford, Randall S. Meacham, and Lowell Moral Lyceum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charms and secrets of good conversation ... (J.B. Alden, 1892), by Theodore Emanuel Schmauk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good talking and good manners : fine arts, with a paper on the social law of mutual help and the labor problem (Wolcott & West, 1887), by F. D. Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversational openings and endings : some hints for playing the game of small talk and other society pastimes (Edward Arnold, 1899), by Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The civile conversation of M. Steeven Guazzo (AMS Press, 1967), by Stefano Guazzo (page images at HathiTrust)
• La manière de converser avec les honnestes gens. (Schouten, 1701) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-books for home improvement : comprising, how to write, how to talk, how to behave, how to do business. (Fowler and Wells, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation : it's faults and it's graces (James Munroe and Company ;, 1856), by Andrew P. Peabody, Francis Chenevix Trench, Parry Gwynne, and Francis Trench (page images at HathiTrust)
• The idle word : short religious essays upon the gift of speech, and its employment in conversation (D. Appleton, 1869), by Edward Meyrick Goulburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on conversation and on quackery. (J.W. Parker, 1836), by Philip Bury Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young man, and other papers. (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854), by Thomas De Quincey and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petit musée de la conversation. (Mercure de France, 1911), by Lucien Deslinières and Victor Ridendo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our conversational circle (The Century co., 1898), by Agnes H. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation (Correct English publishing company, 1907), by Josephine Turck Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conversation of gentlemen considered in most ways that make their mutual company agreeable or disagreeable. In six dialogues. (Printed by J. Hoyles, 1738), by John Constable (page images at HathiTrust)
• Galateo, of manners and behaviours in familiar conversation (Priv. print., 1892), by Giovanni Della Casa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel-conversation. Wherein is shewed: I. How the conversation of beleevers must be above what could be by the light of nature. II. Beyond those that lived under the law. III. And suitable to what truths the Gospel holds forth. (Printed by P. Cole, 1653), by Jeremiah Burroughs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of conversing; or, Dialogues of the day (F. Warne, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talks on talking. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1917), by Grenville Kleiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation, twelve golden rules. (Correct English Pub. Co., 1907), by Josephine Turck Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Science of conversation (Toronto News, 1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
• I sez, sez I a series of talks to talkers on what to say and how to say it (R. Dezell, 1911), by R. Dezell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charm and courtesy in conversation (Dodd, Mead and co., 1904), by Frances Bennett Callaway and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation. (N.Y., 1884), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation, what to say & how to say it. (Funk, 1912), by Mary Greer Conklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The idle word : short religious essays upon the gift of speech, and its employment in conversation (D. Appleton, 1873), by Edward Meyrick Goulburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation : with directions for self education. (G.W. Carleton & co., 1872), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation, with directions for self education. (Carleton, 1864), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of the art of conversation (The Penn Pub. Co., 1891), by John Pentland Mahaffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young man, and other papers. (Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation; practical suggestions on the important subject of what to say, and just how and when to say it. (Penn., 1920), by John Pentland Mahaffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation today: its art, its science, its techniques; how to be an interesting talker. (Nelson-Hall Co., 1960), by Albert B. Dahlquist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talking well; a book on the art of conversation (Macmillan, 1925), by Walter Leo Harrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Danwahō (Genʼōsha, 1907), by Charles Godfrey Leland and Gyorō Fuekawa (page images at HathiTrust)
• We all talk (Nelson, 1936), by Mabel Flick Alstetter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters to a young man, and other papers (Ticknor, 1861), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speak for yourself ; a guide to civilized conversation. (Hillman-Curl, inc., 1937), by Alan Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• What to talk about : the clever question as an aid to social, professional, and business advancement (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923), by Imogene B. Wolcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Everybody's book of better speaking. (D. McKay, 1960), by Dorothy Uris (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to be a convincing talker and a charming conversationalist (Business course, 1937), by J. George Frederick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern conversation (Brewer & Warren, inc., 1930), by Barrington Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mastery of speech : a course in eight parts on general speech, business talking and public speaking, what to say and how to say it under all conditions. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), by Frederick Houk Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• Talking : being one of a series of essays entitled, These diversions (Jarrolds, 1926), by J. B. Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conversation clinic (Esquire-Coronet, 1938), by Loren Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effective techniques for English conversation groups (English Teaching Division, Educational and Cultural Affairs, International Communication Agency, 1981), by Julia M. Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of conversation : to which are added miscellaneous thoughts and reflections on general conduct. (J. Taylor, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wordless conversation, a suggestion ... (Arnold, 1904), by Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Good talking a fine art (Wolcott & West, 1892), by F. D. Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• "I sez, sez I"; a series of talks to talkers on what to say and how to say it (R. Dezell, 1911), by Robert Dezell (page images at HathiTrust)
• We all talk. ([T.] Nelson, 1939), by Mabel Altstetter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Topics for conversation (Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907), by Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Society small talk; or, What to say and when to say it. (F. Warne, 1879), by A member of the aristocracy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Principles of the Art of Conversation, by J. P. Mahaffy (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules, by Josephine Turck Baker (Gutenberg ebook)
• Conversation: Its Faults and Its Graces, ed. by Andrew P. Peabody (Gutenberg ebook)
• Talkers: With Illustrations, by John Bate (Gutenberg ebook)
• Conversation : What to say and how to say it, by Mary Greer Conklin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Talks on Talking, by Grenville Kleiser (Gutenberg ebook)
• The art of complaisance, or, The means to oblige in conversation (London : Printed for John Starkey ..., 1673), by S. C. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• L'art de plaire dans la conversation (London : Printed for R. Bentley ..., 1691), by M. de Vaumorière (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Galateo. English (London : Printed by F.G. for R. Royston ..., 1663), by Giovanni Della Casa and Nathaniel Waker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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