Kira Hall | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | UC Berkeley |
Thesis | (1995) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Linguistics and Department of Anthropology |
Main interests | Sociocultural linguistics |
Notable works | Language and woman's place: text and commentaries |
Notable ideas | Tactics of intersubjectivity |
Website | University 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]
Hall received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley, [4] writing her dissertation under the supervision of Robin Lakoff, and has held academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.
Kira Hall | |
---|---|
Academic background | |
Alma mater | UC Berkeley |
Thesis | (1995) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Linguistics and Department of Anthropology |
Main interests | Sociocultural linguistics |
Notable works | Language and woman's place: text and commentaries |
Notable ideas | Tactics of intersubjectivity |
Website | University 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]
Hall received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 1995 from the University of California at Berkeley, [4] writing her dissertation under the supervision of Robin Lakoff, and has held academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Rutgers Universities.