Kira Hall

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kira Hall plays a role.

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Articles

This commentary responds to papers in a special issue on “Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World.” The discussion considers how anxiety emerges as transnational subjects seek semiotic stability in the global economy’s shifting terrain of indexical… read more
Hall, Kira 2002 Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in HindiGender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 133–162 | Article
1.Introduction 2. Gender in the Hindi language system 2.1 Grammatical gender: Assignment and agreement 2.2 Generic masculines 2.3 Gender reversal: Terms of endearment and insult 3. Uses of the gender system by Hindi-speaking hijras 3.1 Language in hijra socialization 3. read more
Hall, Kira 1996 CyberfeminismComputer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 147 ff. | Article