- Ivana Markova
Ivana Markova (born 1938) is an
emeritus professor ofpsychology at theUniversity of Stirling , known for her work onlanguage and theconstruct s ofcommunication .She was born in Czechoslovakia and studied philosophy and psychology at
Charles University in Prague. In 1967 she moved to the United Kingdom. She initially worked as Research Fellow at Industrial Training Research Unit,University of London (1968-70) before moving to the University of Stirling from which she retired in 2003 as an Emeritus Professor.Her main theoretical research interests are the ontology and epistemology of theory in social psychology, and the interdependence between social thinking, dialogue and semiotics. Empirical research concerns social representations of democracy, individualism and responsibility in post communist Europe and the study of dialogues between people with impaired speech and their partners.
Awards
* Fellow of the
British Psychological Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
* Fellow of theBritish Academy .Books
* Markova, I. (Ed.) (1978). Social context of language. Chichester: Wiley
* Markova, I. (1982). Paradigms, thought and language. London: Wiley
* Markova, I., & Foppa, K. (Eds.) (1990). Dynamics of dialogue. Prentice-Hall.
* Markova, I., & Foppa, K. (Eds.) (1991). Asymmetries in dialogue. Prentice-Hall
* Markova, I., Graumann, C.F., & Foppa, K. (Eds). Mutualities in dialogue.
* Markova, I., & Farr, R. (Eds.) (1995). Representations of health, illness and handicap. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic.
* Marková, I. (2003). Dialogicality and Social Representations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press* Markova, I. (ed.) (2004). Trust and democratic transition in post-communist Europe. Oxford: Oxford University press.
* Markova, Ivana & Moscovici, Serge. (2006). Making of Modern Social Psychology: The Hidden Story of How an International Social Science Was Created. Cambridge and Oxford: Polity Press.
* Markova, I. Linell, P., & Grossen, M. (2007). Dialogue in focus groups: exploring socially shared knowledge. London: Equinox.
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