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Topics include: Overview; Names; Signs and symbols, signification, ideas or concepts, and what in the world is referred to; From lexicography to lexical semantics; Semantics within syntactic structures: the work of Jerrold J. Katz; Alternatives to Katzian semantics; The importance of truth conditions; The development of formal semantics; Anaphora; Contextual considerations and the rise of pragmatics; A summary history of semantics and pragmatics