Kira Hall
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kira Hall is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2211-3770 | E‑ISSN 2211‑3789
Articles
2014 Hypersubjectivity: Language, anxiety, and indexical dissonance in globalization Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World, Hiramoto, Mie and Joseph Sung-Yul Park (eds.), pp. 261–273 | Article
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
2002 Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi Gender 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
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1996 Cyberfeminism Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 147–172 | Article