Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Transcript conventions and abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1: INTRODUCTION -- 1: Using sociolinguistics to study the legal process -- PART 2: COURTROOM HEARINGS -- 2: Researching courtroom talk -- 3: Focus on trials -- 4: Second language speakers and interpreters -- 5: Vulnerable witnesses -- 6: Courtroom talk and societal power relations -- PART 3: POLICE INTERVIEWS -- 7: Police interviews -- 8: Police interviews with members of minority groups -- PART 4: OTHER LEGAL CONTEXTS -- 9: Lawyer-client interactions -- 10: Informal and alternative legal processes -- PART 5: CONCLUSION -- 11: What (else) can sociolinguistics do? -- Notes -- Legal glossary -- Sociolinguistic glossary -- References -- Subject index -- Author index