Encoding & decoding

So says Morris Zapp, in a conference lecture given near the beginning of David Lodge"s Small World (1984). Like the novel as a whole, the lecture is witty, perceptive and provocative - Zapp sets out to question whether we can ever truly understand the language that we use. And that is a really important TOK question to apply to English B.Re-reading Small World in early 2013 has been interesting: partly because it is...

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