Multimodality is the notion which stands behind the most fertile investigations incommunication and language studies nowadays. Multimodal depiction of the surroundingworld helps the child to better conceptualise, objectify, and reify abstractnotions. Even before children learn to talk, they activate their soft skills, the so-calledlife/human competences or social skills, and they employ multimodal communicationpertaining to gestures and sounds in order to interact. Therefore, when knowledgeof the brain and body intertwines with social and emotional intelligence, itfosters human dialogue and it enhances our communication. Offering great insightinto the evolution of theoretical and analytical approaches to multimodal meaningconstruction and soft skills development, this volume is an indispensable resourcefor (under)graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics, semiotics, mediaand communication studies, ELT Methodology, and psychology.