Author

Heather Brookes

Observed names: Brookes, Heather, H Brookes, HEATHER BROOKES, Heather BROOKES, Heather J. Brookes, Heather Jean Brookes

Observed institutions: Human Sciences Research Council, The University of Sydney, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Johannesburg, Stellenbosch University, Stanford University

ORCID: 0000-0003-1210-9356

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-1210-9356

OpenAlex ID: A5014889825

A Repertoire of South African Quotable Gestures

2004 · HEATHER BROOKES · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · 130

Urban Youth Languages in South Africa: A Case Study of Tsotsitaal in a South African Township

2014 · Heather Brookes · Anthropological linguistics · 117

Male youth talk in the construction of black lesbian identities

2014 · Tebogo Maribe, Heather Brookes · Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies · 107

`Suit, Tie and a Touch of Juju'—The Ideological Construction of Africa: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News on Africa in the British Press

1995 · Heather Jean Brookes · Discourse & Society · 98

Leadership Giftedness: Models Revisited

1999 · Adelma A. Roach, Leisy T. Wyman, et al. · Gifted Child Quarterly · 83

The national household HIV prevalence and risk survey of South African Children

2004 · Heather Brookes, Olive Shisana, et al. · 80

What gestures do: Some communicative functions of quotable gestures in conversations among Black urban South Africans

2005 · Heather Brookes · Journal of Pragmatics · 76

Factors Influencing Teen Mothers' Enrollment and Participation in Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Services in Limpopo Province, South Africa

2008 · Christine Varga, Heather Brookes · Qualitative Health Research · 73

O clever ‘He’s streetwise.’ When gestures become quotable

2002 · Heather J. Brookes · Gesture · 43

Amangama amathathu ‘The three letters’

2011 · Heather J. Brookes · Gesture · 34

A social history of urban male youth varieties in Stirtonville and Vosloorus, South Africa

2014 · Heather Brookes, Tshepiso Lekgoro · Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies · 31

Sociocultural Factors Affecting Vocabulary Development in Young South African Children

2021 · Frenette Southwood, Michelle J. White, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 28

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Preventing Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Among South African Adolescents

2008 · Christine Varga, Heather Brookes · Journal of Adolescent Research · 16

An investigation to determine the health status of institutionalised street children in a place of safety in Durban.

1994 · D Nzimakwe, H Brookes · PubMed · 14

Instrument adaptation for measuring early child language development across multilingual and sociocultural diverse settings.

2025 · Heather Brookes, Frenette Southwood, et al. · Developmental Psychology · 9

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The language of youth in Africa

2018 · Heather Brookes, Roland Kouassi · Routledge eBooks · 9

Mean Length of Utterance: A study of early language development in four Southern Bantu languages

2024 · Heather BROOKES, Patricia MAKAURE, et al. · Journal of Child Language · 6

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Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township

2014 · Heather J. Brookes · John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks · 6

Immunology for Clinicians: A “Trojan Horse” Approach

2010 · Clive M. Gray, Shayne Loubser, et al. · Science · 6

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The psychometric status of child language assessment tools in South Africa’s official languages

2025 · Frenette Southwood, Chelsea Brönn, et al. · South African Journal of Communication Disorders · 5

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Gesture studies and anthropological perspectives

2019 · Heather Brookes, Olivier Le Guen · Gesture · 5

Youth Language in South Africa: The Role of English in South AfricanTsotsitaals

2019 · Heather Brookes · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 5

Bilinguals and Bilingualism

2014 · Guadalupe Valdés, Heather Brookes, et al. · Routledge eBooks · 5

The role of gestural polysigns and gestural sequences in teaching mathematical concepts

2018 · Alice Ovendale, Heather Brookes, et al. · Gesture · 3

The Great Leap Sideways: Gender, Culture and Rights After 10 Years of Democracy in South Africa

2005 · Kristina Bentley, Heather Brookes · 3

Works count: 52

Citation count: 1,003

H-index: 14

I10-index: 14