Multimodal Communication and Soft Skills Development -

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Résumé :
Multimodality is the notion which stands behind the most fertile investigations in communication and language studies nowadays. Multimodal depiction of the surrounding world helps the child to better conceptualise, objectify, and reify abstract notions. Even before children learn to talk, they activate their soft skills, the so-called life/human competences or social skills, and they employ multimodal communication pertaining to gestures and sounds in order to interact. Therefore, when knowledge of the brain and body intertwines with social and emotional intelligence, it fosters human dialogue and it enhances our communication. Offering great insight into the evolution of theoretical and analytical approaches to multimodal meaning construction and soft skills development, this volume is an indispensable resource for (under)graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, semiotics, media and communication studies, ELT Methodology, and psychology.

Biographie:
Maria-Ionela Neagu is Associate Professor in the Philology Department of Petroleum- Gas University of Ploiesti and a committed researcher whose major fields of study range from English linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, argumentation theory and cognitive semantics to applied linguistics and ELT methodology. She has published widely in reputed academic journals and proceedings of national and international conferences. Diana Costea is Associate Professor in the Philology Department, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti. Her main research interests are related to the field of French textual linguistics. Her publications include numerous scientific papers presented at national and international conferences, as well as scholarly articles and monographs on the French morpho-syntactic patterns.

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Introduction - Acknowledgements - Gabriela Duda (Universit? P?trole-Gaz de Ploiesti) : La modification de la valeur d'usage des termes g?ographiques - Carmen Sancho Guinda (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Escuela T?cnica Superior de Ingenier?a Aeron?utica y del Espacio, Dpto. de Ling??stica Aplicada a la Ciencia y la Tecnolog?a) : Multimodal narratives in science dissemination and political discourse: The subtlety game - Arleen Ionescu1 and Li Zengjing2 (1,2Shanghai Jiao Tong University) : The Limits of Humour: On COVID-19 Tendentious Jokes - Chen Ling (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) : Remembering Trauma in Multimodal Ways: The Rape of Nanking - Rongrong Qian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) : Multimodality of Memory Manipulation in John Banville's Shroud - Li Zengjing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) : Multimodal Stylistics of Nicholas Royle's Quilt: Making Trouble within and beyond Language - Diana R?nciog (Universit? P?trole-Gaz de Ploiesti) : Publicit? et strat?gies de vente pour un produit de luxe - le parfum - dans la perspective de la communication multimodale - Adina Oana Nicolae (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti) : Verbal Meets Pictorial: Patterns of Multimodal Interaction In The Economist Front Page - Diana Paraschiv*, Catalin Stanescu** (*Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti) : Multimodality, meaning, identity: UNTOLD Festival - Sara Marinescu (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti) : The Power of Photography - Mihaela Duma (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti) : Hiding or Revealing the Human Nature Behind the Mask. The Joker Effect - Anca Dobrinescu (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploie?ti) : Multimodal Communication and Soft Skills Development in the English Literature Class - Ana Maria Tolomei (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti) : Mind Mapping Emanations in Active Learning - Teodora Raducanu (Your Education Shape, Spain) : Emotional and social intelligence competences in private schools abroad - Doina Grigore (George Enescu National University of Arts) : Musical Communication - The Performer as Decoder and Transmitter - Maria-Ionela Neagu, Stan Roxana-Iuliana (Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti, 'Elie Radu' Technological Highschool) : Developing soft skills during EFL classes .