Kira Hall

American linguist and anthropologist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican linguist and anthropologist
PlacesUnited States of America
isAnthropologist Linguist
Work fieldLiterature Social science
Gender
Female
Birth10 October 1962
Age62 years
The details

Biography

Kira Hall (born 10 October 1962), is associate 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.
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, Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self, New York: Routledge, pp. 1–24, ISBN 9780415913997.  Pdf.
  • Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary (1995), "From Mulatta to Mestiza: Passing and the linguistic reshaping of ethnic identity", in Hall, Kira; Bucholtz, Mary, Gender articulated: language and the socially constructed self, New York: Routledge, pp. 351–374, ISBN 9780415913997.  Pdf.

Journal articles

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