Review of Jung, Yeonkwon. (2022). Sociolinguistics and Business Talk. A Role-Playing Apprach. Palgrave Macmillan

In Sociolinguistics and Business Talk.A Role-Playing Approach, Yeonkwon Jung explores talk at work with the support of both a theoretical and applied approach.The book focuses on talk in various work situations through a corpus of semi-structured conversations among L2 students of Business English as Lingua Franca.As already clear from the title, the book looks at the relationship between language and context, paying special attention to business talk-with examples of various types of situations from the business sector-and to role-play, based on data retrieved from simulated conversations.The data which the author examines consists of a series of student class presentations during one semester; moreover, as students were majoring in humanities and social sciences with no experience in business studies, the interactions follow a more mundane approach rather than an institutional and workrelated one.In terms of role-play, the book explores topics that require creativity from the participants (e.g., imagining call centre talk, business meeting talk, sales talk, etc.), less-interactive dialogues (e.g., job recruitment and job application), and less professional ones (e.g., random business encounters).While highlighting the benefits of naturally recurring data, in the first chapter the author explains why conversation analysis has not been used as a method for the study, as it can be