This course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods in the analysis of language meaning. It also offers the study of symbolic processes and how meaning is encoded in words, phrases, sentences, and utterances; a discussion of modern theories of meaning; and an exploration of relationships among language, thought and action. It surveys basic topics in semantics such as sense and reference, lexical semantics and basic sense relations, semantics and grammar, and simple logic. It also introduces pragmatics and the negotiation of interpersonal meanings in contexts of situations. The course also explores the relationship between how the use and the users determine the meanings of words.