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According to Transactional Analysis, each person evokes in her/his speech a certain Ego State: Parent, Child and/ or Adult. In this article, The Parent, Child and Adult Ego States are all present – in varying degrees, according to circumstances – both in preschoolers’ language and in the preschool child-preschool teacher communication. In this article I will focus on the discourse markers of these Ego States (verbal, nonverbal, paraverbal) in the particular context of preschool children-preschool teacher communication as exhibited in the language of native speakers of Romanian, on the one hand, and those of French, on the other.