Kira Hall

Kira Hall is professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, as well as director for the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP), at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Kira Hall
Academic background
Alma materUC Berkeley
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
Main interestsSociocultural linguistics
Notable worksLanguage and woman's place: text and commentaries
Notable ideasTactics of intersubjectivity
WebsiteUniversity of Colorado at Boulder

The majority of Hall's work focuses on language in India and the United States, with special attention to organizations of gender and sexuality. She is currently writing a book on the linguistic and sociocultural practices of Hindi-speaking Hijras in northern India, a transgender group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sex."

She is well known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.

Education

Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held previous academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.

Selected bibliography

Books
  • Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995) [1975]. Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415913997.

Book chapters
  • Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995) [1975], "Introduction: Twenty years after Language and Woman's Place", in Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (eds.), Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self, New York: Routledge, pp. 1–24, ISBN 9780415913997.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Pdf.
  • Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995), "From Mulatta to Mestiza: Passing and the linguistic reshaping of ethnic identity", in Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (eds.), Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self, New York: Routledge, pp. 351–374, ISBN 9780415913997.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Pdf.

Journal articles

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