ABSTRACT
The term 'technical' is not confined to natural science and technology. Any specialist field has its own technical terms and its own genre-marking characteristics: a look at a hobbies magazine, a review of the rock scene, or the City pages and the sports section of the paper, is enough to confirm this. Texts in these and any other specialized fields are properly speaking 'technical' texts. It is simply to avoid repeating the cumbersome 'natural-scientific and technological' that we shall be applying the term 'technical' to texts written in the context of natural-scientific or technological disciplines.
