Kira Hall

Kira Hall
Born	(1962-10-10) 10 October 1962
Website	[[1] www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/index.html%20University%20of%20Colorado%20at%20Boulder]]
Academic background
Alma mater	UC Berkeley
Academic work
Institutions	University of Colorado at Boulder
Main interests	Sociocultural linguistics
Notable works	Language and woman's place: text and commentaries
Notable ideas	Tactics of intersubjectivity

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

Book chapters

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Journal articles

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External links

• Kira Hall's home page
• Program in Culture, Language and Social Practice