期刊名称：Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2410-3918
电子版ISSN：2410-8693
出版年度：2016
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：IIPCCL
摘要：Writing for Professional Purposes is considered as a means of communication betweenprofessionals who belong to two communities that have different languages, but share thesame knowledge or expertise. The article gives a hint on how writing for specific purposesevolved to give rise to the creation of Writing for Professional Purposes. The social, culturaland cognitive aspects are an essential part of Writing for Professional Purposes since thephysical act of writing cannot be considered only a result or product of the knowledge theindividual possesses but also a social and cultural act. Therefore, the social and cultural aspectsof writing explains the specificities and the intricacies of the effects these aspects have onwriting for it is considered as an inseparable part of social and cultural groups. On the otherhand, the cognitive aspect of writing explains and emphasizes the mental activities of theindividual during the decision-making process while he/she is writing planning and editingtheir material having in mind the audience. On the same line of reasoning, writing forprofessional purposes in a second language means that the writer has to consider the audiencetwice; first, there is an audience who shares the same knowledge or expertise and second, theaudience does not have the same language. Consequently, writing in another language that isnot the first language with a specific jargon as well as a specific grammatical structure bringsabout a lot of difficulties. Hence, writing in professional contexts in the mother tongue impliesonly writing in a specialized version of a language already known to the writer, but writingin a target language means that the writer has to learn the target language and the specializedversion of that language
关键词：Writing for Professional Purposes; social and cultural aspect; mother tongue;cognitive aspect; target language; differences
