Język dziewiętnastowiecznych listów pasterskich biskupów diecezji kujawsko-kaliskiej wobec wyznaczników stylu religijnego

The article is part of general research on religious language. This article focuses mainly on describing selected features of religious style in pastoral letters in the nineteenth century. The linguistic material was a collection of nineteen thematically diverse pastoral letters written by bishops of the Diocese of Kujawy and Kalisz in the years 1819-1881. Analyzing the language of those letters, special attention is devoted to the religious lexis and phraseology, including terminology, as well as the presence of pragmatically oriented rhetorical devices, like addressative forms, speaker-listener relations, normative vocabulary and superlative forms.