Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: language and institutional power -- Chapter 2. Interpreting for the police: issues in pre-trial phases of the judicial process -- Chapter 3. The Miranda warnings and linguistic coercion: the role of footing in the interrogation of a limited-English-speaking murder suspect -- Chapter 4. Coercion and its limits: admitting to murder but resisting an accusation of attempted rape -- Chapter 5. Does every yeah mean 'yes' in a police interrogation? -- Chapter 6. Pidginization and asymmetrical communicative accommodation in a child molestation case -- Chapter 7. Confessing in the absence of recording: linguistic and extralinguistic evidence of coercion in a police interrogation -- Chapter 8. Conclusions -- Backmatter