Multimodal Communication and Soft Skills Development

Maria-Ionela Neagu is Associate Professor in the Philology Department of Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti and a committed researcher whose major fields of studyrange from English linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, argumentation theory andcognitive semantics to applied linguistics and ELT methodology. She has publishedwidely in reputed academic journals and proceedings of national and internationalconferences.Diana Costea is Associate Professor in the Philology Department, Faculty of Lettersand Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti. Her main research interests arerelated to the field of French textual linguistics. Her publications include numerousscientific papers presented at national and international conferences, as well asscholarly articles and monographs on the French morpho-syntactic patterns.

lt;p>Introduction - Acknowledgements - Gabriela Duda (Université Pétrole-Gaz de Ploiesti) : La modification de la valeur d'usage des termes géographiques - Carmen Sancho Guinda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio, Dpto. de Lingüística Aplicada a la Ciencia y la Tecnología) : 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 Rînciog (Université Pétrole-Gaz de Ploiesti) : Publicité et stratégies 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 .