Gwarowa etykieta językowa i religia
Rural dialect etiquette and religion.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents arelationship between prayer formulas of everyday etiquette used frequently in peasant dialects and traditional peasant religiosity, in which amodel of rural politeness and asystem of values and moral norms are embedded. An analysis of selected forms of address (quasi-religious welcomes, farewells and greetings at meal times and at work) shows that they originate from the cultural mechanism of the religious axiologisation of various spheres of life, scripts, gestures of culture, and from adding asacral dimension to farming and all areas of human activity related to it. The analysed forms of address are part of the “kind word” culture that sees awish as atangible gift that, with the help of God, provides prosperity, good health and luck in all spheres of private and social life (including food and alcohol consumption). The paper follows the anthropological-cultural research trends in dialectology.

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