Dialogicality and Social Representations: The Dynamics of Mind

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Cambridge University Press, Nov 27, 2003 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 224 pages
This book develops a theory of social knowledge based on dialogicality, the capacity of the human mind to conceive and communicate about social reality in relation or opposition to otherness, and the theory of social representations. It argues that dialogicality is the sine qua non of the human mind and change is at the centre of all social phenomena. Ivana Markova's new book is unique in bringing together the concept of dialogue and social knowledge and will be an important contribution to social psychology and discourse and communication studies.
 

Contents

An epistemological problem for social psychology
1
Thinking and antinomies
26
Thinking and antinomies
27
Linguistic and dialogical antinomies
61
Thinking through the mouth
84
Thinking through the mouth
89
old and
118
Dialogical triads and threecomponent processes
147
Understanding themata and generating social representations
177
social representations and dialogicality
203
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Ivana Marková was born in Czechoslovakia but has lived in the UK since 1967. She is Professor of Psychology at the University of Stirling and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Oslo, Bern, Paris, Linkoping, Mexico and Bologna. She directs three international research groups in the European Laboratory of Social Psychology at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. She is also a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Psychological Scoiety. Previous books include Paradigms, Thought and Language (1982), Human Awareness (1987), Mutualities of Dialogue ed. (1995).

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