Annelies Kusters

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 934 citations indexed

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Annelies Kusters is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Annelies Kusters has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 934 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 30 papers in Language and Linguistics and 8 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Annelies Kusters's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (32 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (25 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers). Annelies Kusters is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (32 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (25 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers). Annelies Kusters collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Annelies Kusters's co-authors include Maartje De Meulder, Ruth Swanwick, Elina Tapio, Massimiliano Spotti, Michele Friedner, Joseph J. Murray, Ceil Lucas, Jemina Napier and Jordan Fenlon and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Sustainability and Annual Review of Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Annelies Kusters

39 papers receiving 856 citations

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Beyond languages, beyond modalities: transforming the study of semiotic repertoires

2017 201 citations Annelies Kusters et al. International Journal of Multilingualism profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Annelies Kusters	646	623	262	150	136	40	934
Ruth Swanwick	491 0.8×	328 0.5×	174 0.7×	117 0.8×	64 0.5×	44	703
Agnes Weiyun He	122 0.2×	799 1.3×	460 1.8×	507 3.4×	42 0.3×	27	1.0k
Ana Celia Zentella	184 0.3×	758 1.2×	1.0k 3.9×	331 2.2×	36 0.3×	24	1.4k
Elizabeth Lanza	424 0.7×	580 0.9×	847 3.2×	234 1.6×	15 0.1×	27	1.1k
Suzanne E. Jacobs	139 0.2×	300 0.5×	192 0.7×	280 1.9×	16 0.1×	12	666
Ronice Müller de Quadros	388 0.6×	227 0.4×	42 0.2×	64 0.4×	30 0.2×	69	539
Magdalena Kubanyiova	174 0.3×	531 0.9×	176 0.7×	360 2.4×	29 0.2×	16	784
Martha Bigelow	189 0.3×	286 0.5×	198 0.8×	237 1.6×	42 0.3×	34	609
Mardi Kidwell	74 0.1×	350 0.6×	51 0.2×	129 0.9×	52 0.4×	14	460
Irene Koshik	128 0.2×	997 1.6×	176 0.7×	494 3.3×	65 0.5×	12	1.1k

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Kusters, Annelies. (2024). International Sign: Nature and Nomenclature. Annual Review of Linguistics. 11(1). 53–71. 1 indexed citations

Kusters, Annelies. (2024). More Than Signs: International Sign as Distributed Practice. Signs and Society. 12(1). 37–57. 3 indexed citations

Kusters, Annelies. (2021). Introduction: the semiotic repertoire: assemblages and evaluation of resources. International Journal of Multilingualism. 18(2). 183–189. 27 indexed citations

Kusters, Annelies, Maartje De Meulder, & Jemina Napier. (2021). Family language policy on holiday: four multilingual signing and speaking families travelling together. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 42(8). 698–715. 11 indexed citations

Kusters, Annelies, et al.. (2020). Special Issue on Linguistic Ethnography. Sign language studies. 20(4).

Kusters, Annelies. (2020). The tipping point: On the use of signs from American Sign Language in International Sign. Language & Communication. 75. 51–68. 19 indexed citations

Kusters, Annelies. (2019). Boarding Mumbai trains: the mutual shaping of intersectionality and mobility. Mobilities. 14(6). 841–858. 17 indexed citations

Meulder, Maartje De, et al.. (2019). Describe, don't prescribe. The practice and politics of translanguaging in the context of deaf signers. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. 40(10). 892–906. 76 indexed citations

Kusters, Annelies. (2019). One Village, Two Sign Languages: Qualia, Intergenerational Relationships and the Language Ideological Assemblage in Adamorobe, Ghana. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 30(1). 48–67. 9 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies. (2017). Gesture-based customer interactions: deaf and hearing Mumbaikars’ multimodal and metrolingual practices. International Journal of Multilingualism. 14(3). 283–302. 47 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies, et al.. (2017). Innovations in deaf studies: The role of deaf scholars. Oxford University Press eBooks. 104 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies. (2017). When transport becomes a destination: deaf spaces and networks on the Mumbai suburban trains. Journal of Cultural Geography. 34(2). 170–193. 8 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies. (2017). “Our hands must be connected”: visible gestures, tactile gestures and objects in interactions featuring a deafblind customer in Mumbai. Social Semiotics. 27(4). 394–410. 18 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies. (2016). Autogestion and competing hierarchies: deaf and other perspectives on diversity and the right to occupy space in the Mumbai surburban trains. Social & Cultural Geography. 18(2). 201–223. 7 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies, et al.. (2016). A reflexive report on filmmaking within a linguistic ethnography with deaf and hearing people in Mumbai. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 6 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies. (2015). Deaf Space in Adamorobe. Gallaudet University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies. (2014). Deaf Sociality and the Deaf Lutheran Church in Adamorobe, Ghana. Sign language studies. 14(4). 466–487. 15 indexed citations

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Friedner, Michele & Annelies Kusters. (2014). On the possibilities and limits of "DEAF DEAF SAME": Tourism and empowerment camps in Adamorobe (Ghana), Bangalore and Mumbai (India).. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 34(3). 9 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies & Maartje De Meulder. (2013). Understanding Deafhood: In Search of Its Meanings. American annals of the deaf. 157(5). 428–438. 28 indexed citations

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Kusters, Annelies. (2009). Deaf Utopias? Reviewing the Sociocultural Literature on the World's "Martha's Vineyard Situations". The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 15(1). 3–16. 39 indexed citations

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