In our age of globalization and mass migration (where, for example, it is estimated that over twelve per cent of its current population was born outside the USA), the importance of successful communication between people of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds has never been greater. As traditional social and geographic boundaries have given way to increasingly complex representations of identity, new-and urgent-questions for psychologists, social scientists, and policymakers arise.
In our age of globalization and mass migration (where, for example, it is estimated that over twelve per cent of its current population was born outsi...
