Forensic Linguistics is an introduction to the fascinating interface between language and the law.

• Provides an integrated and fully theorized understanding of language and law issues.
  
• Contains many helpful examples from genuine legal contexts and texts.
  
• Discusses linguistic sources of disadvantage before the law, particularly for ethnic minorities, children and abused women.

Forensic Linguistics is an introduction to the fascinating interface between language and the law.

• Provides an integrated and fully theorized understanding of language and law issues.
  
• Contains many helpful examples from genuine legal contexts and texts.
  
• Discusses linguistic sources of disadvantage before the law, particularly for ethnic minorities, children and abused women.

Offers an introduction to the main political institutions to students unfamiliar with Spanish Politics. . For more advanced students, the volume explores policy-making in Spain with reference to wider policy analysis literature. Offers historical coverage which provides an invaluable context to current events.