Our outstanding ability to communicate is a distinguishing features of our species. To communicate is to convey meaning, but what is meaning? How do words combine to give us the meanings of sentences? And what makes a statement ambiguous or nonsensical? These questions and many others are addressed in Paul Elbourne's fascinating guide. He opens by asking what kinds of things th...(展开全部)

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led t...(展开全部)

This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field. The authors introduce the systematic study of linguistic meaning through a sequence of formal tools and their linguistic applications. Starting with propositional connectives and truth conditions, the book moves to quantification and binding, intensionality and...(展开全部)

A comprehensive introduction to the ways in which meaning is conveyed in language. Alan Cruse covers semantic matters, but also deals with topics that are usually considered to fall under pragmatics. A major aim is to highlight the richness and subtlety of meaning phenomena, rather than to expound any particular theory. Rich in examples and exercises, Meaning in Language provid...(展开全部)

热纳维耶芙·安东丽·德阿里奥夫人一生中大多数时间都在巴黎度过，她现在居住在法国南部。自从孩提时代起，她就更乐意陪母亲去裁缝店，而不是去看电影。她在时装设计和珠宝制作方面展现了非凡的才能，并开办了自己的时装店。她最终因为自己的杰出成就而被莲娜丽姿公司聘请，多年来她一直指导着该公司的时装沙龙。

This text is for teachers and students throughout the world who require an introduction to the subject of econometrics, the notation and technical detail that characterize most textbooks. This edition updates the contents and references throughout the text, while retaining the basic structure and structure of earlier editions. New material has been added on several topics such ...(展开全部)

A Guide to Econometrics has established itself as a preferred text for teachers and students throughout the world. It provides an overview of the subject and an intuitive feel for its concepts and techniques without the notation and technical detail that characterize most econometrics textbooks.The fifth edition has two major additions, a chapter on panel data and an innovative...(展开全部)

This is the perfect (and essential) supplement for all econometrics classes--from a rigorous first undergraduate course, to a first master's, to a PhD course. Explains what is going on in textbooks full of proofs and formulas Offers intuition, skepticism, insights, humor, and practical advice (dos and don'ts) Contains new chapters that cover instrumental variables and computati...(展开全部)