Much of this list is frozen in the late 90s because I got busy doing other stuff, but it represents fundamental work in the field of semeiognomy.
You’re also going to want to get yourself a fairly good grounding not only in canonical religious and philosophical material, but contemporary skeptical works as well.
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Aron, Elaine N (1997) The Highly Sensitive Person. [ISBN 0553062182]
Armstrong, David F (1995) Gesture and the Nature of Language. [ISBN 0521467721]
Bolinger, Dwight (1974) Meaning and Form. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 3, Issue 2, Series II, pp. 218-233. [dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2164-0947.1974.tb01567.x]
Bolinger, Dwight (1977) Meaning and Form. English Language Series, Title No. 11. Randolph Quirk (gen. ed.). London, England and New York, NY: Longman Group Limited. [ISBN 058255103X]
Cain, Susan (2012) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. [ISBN 0307352153]
Chafe, Wallace L (1994) Discourse, Consciousness, and Time. [ISBN 0226100545]
Fauconnier, Gilles (1985) Mental Spaces: Aspects of meaning construction in natural language. [ISBN 9780521444996]
Givón, Talmy (1984) Syntax. [ISBN 0915027089]
Goldberg, Adele E (1996) Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language. [ISBN 1575860406]
Goldberg, Adele E (1995) Constructions. [ISBN 0226300862]
Gomez, Emilio; Iborra, Oscar; De Córdoba Serrano, María José; Juárez-Ramos, V; Rodríguez Artacho, M.A.; and Rubio, José. (2013) The Kiki-Bouba Effect A Case of Personification and Ideaesthesia. Journal of Consciousness Studies. Vol 20, Numbers 1-2, pp. 84-102(19).
Greenberg, Jill (2006) Monkey Portraits. [ISBN 9780316005128]
Harris, Randy Allen (1993) The Linguistics Wars. [ISBN 019509834X]
Hauser, Marc D (1996) The Evolution of Communication. [ISBN 0262082500]
Iacobini, Marco (2008) Mirroring People. [ISBN 0374210179]
Jahn, Robert G, and Dunne, Brenda J (1987) Margins of Reality: the Role of Consciousness in the Physical World. [ISBN 9781936033003]
Johnson, Julia, and Mansfield, Tracy (2001) Similarity measures for natural language images. In M. Gabbouj (Ed.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Services: Vol. 3 (pp. 69-74). Tampere, Finland.
Lambrecht, Knud (1994) Information Structure and Sentence Form. [ISBN 0521587042]
Lakoff, George (1987) Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. [ISBN 9780226468044]: idealized cognitive models (ch. 4) and radial categorization (ch. 6)
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson (1999) Philosophy in the Flesh. [ISBN 0465056733]
Langacker, Ronald W (1991) Concept, Image, and Symbol. [ISBN 9783110172805]: discourse model, particularly 3.1.1
Langacker, Ronald W (1987) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar (v1&2). [ISBN 0804712611/19098]
Langacker, Ronald W (2008) Cognitive Grammar: a basic introduction. [ISBN 9780195331950; 9780195331967 pbk]
Levin, Beth (1993) English Classes and Alternations. [ISBN 0226475336]
Levine, Mel (1993) All Kinds of Minds. [ISBN 0838820905]
Levine, Mel (1994) Educational Care. [ISBN 0838819877]
Levine, Melvin (1998) Developmental Variation and Learning Disorders. [ISBN 0838819923]
Magnus, Margaret (1999) Gods of the Word: Archetypes in the Consonants. [ISBN 0943549523]
Mansfield, Tracy (1997) Prominence: from Sensation to Language. [UMI 9820869]
McNeill, David (1992) Hand and Mind. [ISBN 0226561348]
Nippold, Marilyn (2007) Later Language Development. [ISBN 141640211X] (See also the articles in the American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 2007-2009.)
Ohala, John (1987) Cross-language use of pitch: An ethological view. Phonetica, Vol 40, pp. 1-18.
Roy, Parama (2010) Alimentary Tracts. [ISBN 9780822348023]
Ruhlen, Merritt (1994) The Origin of Language. [ISBN 0471584266]
Schiffman, Harvey R (1982) Sensation and Perception. [ISBN 0471082082]
Schwartz, Bennett L (2002) Tip-of-the-Tongue States. [ISBN 0805834451]
Shermer, Michael (2011) The Believing Brain: from Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies. [ISBN 0805091254]
Smith, Tiffany W (2016) The Book of Human Emotions. [ISBN 1781251304]
Tomasello, Michael, and Slobin, Dan I (Eds.) (2005) Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates. [ISBN 9780805850277]
Van Hoek, Karen (1997) Anaphora and Conceptual Structure. [ISBN 0226848930]
Vesterinen, Rainer (2006) Subordinação adverbial: um estudo cognitivo sobre o infinitivo, o clitico SE e as formas verbais finitas em proposições adverbias do Português Europeu. [ISBN 9171551956]
Watkins, Calvert (1985) The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots. [ISBN 0395360706]