Ivana Markova
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Ivana Markova (born 1938) is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Stirling, known for her work on language and the constructs of communication.
She was born in Czechoslovakia and studied philosophy and psychology at Charles University in Prague. In 1968 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.
[edit] Awards
- Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Fellow of the British Academy.
[edit] Books
- Markova, I. (1982). Paradigms, thought and language. London: Wiley
- Marková, I. (2003). Dialogicality and Social Representations. Cambridge: Cambridge 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.
