Kira Hall
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Kira Hall is associate professor of linguistics and anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is best-known for her contributions to research on language and identity within sociocultural linguistics, namely the tactics of intersubjectivity framework developed with Mary Bucholtz.
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 transgendered group often discussed in the anthropological literature as a "third sex."
