Linguistic Shaping of Accounting

by Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui

Accounting may be viewed and analyzed as its own special sort of language says Riahi-Belkaoui, and accounting is the language of business. It represents phenomena in the business world as language represents phenomena in the larger world. To understand accounting as a language one must study such things as its readability and understandability, its impact on users behavior, its various linguistic repertories, and the impact that bilinguality has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899309925
• ISBN13: 9780899309927
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"