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You should check out two books: This anthology edited by Martinich & Sosa (has the major, classic readings and a lot more), and Scott Soames' introductory book. Soames' book is a fairly gentle walkthrough of some important contemporary topics.
If you're looking for names: Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, Kripke, Davidson, Kaplan, Chomsky, Millikan, Brandom, and Stalnaker. Those are all great philosophers of language from roughly the 20th century.
Lots more opens up once philosophers start taking linguistics seriously. If you're a philosopher who wants to do philosophy of language, you need some familiarity with semantics. For that, Heim & Kratzer's Semantics in Generative Grammar is the tops. There's so much good work on modality and conditionals from linguists and philosophers (Lewis, Kratzer, Yalcin, Stalnaker...too many to name, really), lots of work on contextualism in epistemology, entire literatures on small fragments of language, and so on. But the stuff I recommended above will get you acquainted with the classics.
I highly recommend this book by Scott Soames. Couple that with reading the seminal papers by Frege, Russell, P.F. Strawson and the others that are cited in the text (the papers recommended in the /r/philosophy reading list are all worth reading).
I think Soames and Lycan's books are pretty good.
There are many good analytic introductions to philosophy of language, including Martinich and Sosa and Soames.