Kira Hall

Kira Hall
Academic background
Alma materUC Berkeley
Thesis (1995)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Linguistics and Department of Anthropology
Main interestsSociocultural linguistics
Notable worksLanguage and woman's place: text and commentaries
Notable ideasTactics of intersubjectivity
WebsiteUniversity of Colorado at Boulder

Kira Hall is Distinguished 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.[1][2]

The majority of Hall's work focuses on language in India and the United States, with special attention to organizations of gender and sexuality. A special focus of her work has been the linguistic and sociocultural practices of Hindi-speaking Hijras in northern India, a nonbinary group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sex."

She is known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, and especially the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.[3]

  1. ^ "Faculty". Department of Linguistics. 2014-08-05. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  2. ^ "Faculty". Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP). 2018-06-04. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  3. ^ "Kira Hall". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-02-21.