COMMUNICATION THAT COUNTS: LANGUAGE PRACTICE AND IDEOLOGY IN GLOBALIZED ACCOUNTINGBy Pia Patricia P.TenederoMultilingual Matters. ISBN 978‐180041‐649‐9. Price USD 129.95 (hardcover), USD 25.00 (eBook). 160 pages.

Abstract

As English has become the lingua franca of business, English for specific purposes (ESP) has grown increasingly important in the global workplace. For example, Asia has witnessed significant economic and social development in recent decades, and an increasingly mobile and international population has given rise to a growing use of English as a lingua franca for labor and trade and as language for educational purposes (Basturkmen, 2022). Given these conditions, ESP programs can help learners succeed in their employment by providing them with the language skills they need to communicate successfully in English, which includes developing their cultural awareness and sensitivity for effective communication in intercultural settings. In this book, Pia Patricia P. Tenedero investigates language and communication practices and ideologies in accounting education and profession in the Philippines. Veering away from highly perceptionbased, skills-focused, and Global North-informed research, she focuses on the Philippines (a Global South representation), which has become a global leader in offshore accounting, as an ideal setting for examining issues surrounding multilingual, multimodal, and transnational workplace communication.Tenedero's book is divided into seven chapters in which she explains the (dis)connections between communication practices and ideologies in the contexts of accounting education and accounting work. In chapter 1, she introduces the book's main argument: communication is central to accounting work, especially in the context of globalized accounting enterprise in the Philippines. She shows that dominant views about communication in accounting are shaped by several factors, including the occupational stereotype of accountants as being good with numbers but bad with words, the Global North-centric focus of much accounting communication research, and the skills deficit discourse, which overemphasizes the role of higher education in developing students' work-relevant communication skills. Chapter 2, on the other hand, provides an overview of current deliberations about communication in accounting and situates the research focus on the communication skills of Filipino accountants, an underrepresented population in the Global South in terms of studies on communication practices and ideologies across the education-to-workplace continuum. This chapter also explains the sociolinguistic-ethnographic approach-comprising observation field notes, interviews, and documents-that has been used