Gimenez Moreno, Rosa (ed.). (2010). Words for Working. Professional and Academic English for International Business and Economics. Valencia. Universitat de Valencia (PUV). Coleccion: Educacio. Laboratori de Materials 28. Pages: 400. ISBN: 978-84-370- 7873-1 There are many ways in which one can sell and it is certainly one of the most important aspects of business to be able to place a product successfully in the market. From a creative and editorial point of view a telling title is similarly weighty and this book fulfils that premise: a hand-book whose very title calls the attention of the prospective reader/user by underlining its operative quality. Words to work with, operative language, certainly reminiscent of the type of text that Reiss (1976: 9 ff.) associated with the third of Buhler's (1934: 433-52)1 Organonmodell language functions. Words which are capable of functioning within the sphere of business transactions and of that wealth of nations contemplated by Adam Smith, to the convened benefit of the parties. The book is well organised and balanced, with 79 pages introducing 192 pages dedicated to business and economics and 78 pages of academic and research English part, closing the volume. As customary with the PUV series, the volume is student-centred. Each chapter has a short list of recommended references and web links (general references, abbreviations and the like being appended to the end of the book), interspersed activities and a final summarizing self-test. This is a fact worth bearing in mind when reviewing, since the type of text intended for trainees and novice researchers demand a more varied approach than peer to peer publications. As Alexander Pope, in the Preface to his Shakespeare edition and in reference to Neo-Classical criticism, sentenced, it would be like trying a Man by the Laws of one Country, who had acted under those of another. It is what Benes (1969) classified as the 'teaching/learning' substyle of his 'theoretical-factical style', Mohn & Pelka's (1984) typology called 'didactiveinstructive' texts and Glaser (1990), somewhat radically perhaps, grouped with popular science and medical reports addressed to the lay. The first introductory chapter, by Jose Mateo Martinez, briefly describes the general map of specialty languages as an example of non-habitual language use, within the cadre of situation business and economics. The basic three-fold distinction already established by the Prague school scholars, wherein specialty languages are characterised by the addressee and either meant for the inner circle of the specialists, for the outer world of lay or are forced to navigate intermediate semi-specialised and half-technical shallows, is exemplified with English for Economics and Business English; even though both Academic English and Research English can be included in what Benes had understood as the 'teaching' and 'research' substyles of his 'theoretical-factical' style. Mateo highlights the obvious prevalence of nominal structures and emphasises the pragmatic aspects, something which can determine the success or failure of any trade endeavour and which is also brought to the fore by Ruiz Garrido (pages 87-92) and Bosch (especially pages 125 ff.) in their corresponding chapters. The fourth subsection focuses on the pedagogical aspects of professional and academic English teaching and, as customary now for the last decades, concentrates upon the learner's needs, the preliminary needs analyses that both Bosch and Montanes (pages 102-107, 141- 143) will also underline. The second of the introductory chapters is due to Miguel F. Ruiz Garrido and presents language variations within English of Business and Economics in their geographical, personal, situational and other aspects, paying special attention, as indicated above, to the pragmatics-oriented, intercultural approaches and studies and incorporating Quirk's fivefold distinction that adds the social environment, the medium (spoken o written) and the (pre)existing relationships between/among the participants in the speech act as relevant factors. …