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Short Biography:
| Kira Hall received her Ph.D. in Linguistics
from UC Berkeley in 1995 and is currently Associate Professor
of Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. Specializing in the area of language, gender, and
sexuality, her major publications include Gender Articulated:
Language and the Socially Constructed Self (with Mary Bucholtz,
Routledge 1995) and Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and
Sexuality (with Anna Livia, Oxford 1997). 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.” |
Sociocultural
Linguistics at CU Boulder
The University of
Colorado at Boulder is the home of a new interdisciplinary program
in sociocultural linguistics, entitled CLASP (Culture, Language and Social Practice). Faculty
affiliated with the program come from a variety of departments
across campus, including Anthropology, Communication, East
Asian Languages and Civilizations, French
and Italian, Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese, and Speech,
Language, and Hearing Science.
For a full description of the program and a list of affiliated
faculty, click here.
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