Positive Politeness and Negative Politeness in Didactic Communication – Landmarks in Teaching Methodology

Didactic communication involves the usage of positive and negative politeness at all levels (verbal, nonverbal and paraverbal) concerning the interaction teacher – student. This reality is reflected in the present paper by the answers provided by a group of teachers and students from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania, at an interview focused on the topic of communication with pre-school/primary school students. Therefore, I propose the analysis of the main forms of manifesting positive and negative politeness in this particular framework of didactic communication (as part of teaching methodology) – at a pre-school and primary school level.