English in Technical Communication - Global Language, Global Culture?
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/2001/PDFs/STC48-000141.PDF

Kuusto, Marjo
STC Proceedings
2001

Abstract:

English is used in global communication even between people who do not speak English as their mother tongue. Even though we may feel there are world wide subcultures such as modern technology we should note how much culture affects communication from the surface level of language to the more deeper level of our 'mental programming'. Keeping this in mind we should ask who actually owns the English language, if those who have it as mother tongue talk with people who have different mental models and their own culture as the background for the communicative event.