Wzory XVI-wiecznej polemiki religijnej w świetle pism Marcina Czechowica (rekonesans)

The aim of this paper is the description of the literature of Marcin Czechowic through the pragmatic aspects of a religious war of words. Such analysis is aimed at identifi cation of both the sender’s intention as well as the ways of their realization. This way of analysis allowed identifying two main communication strategies in the Czechowic’s writings: the conciliation strategy which conciliates protagonists of the author’s ideology by creating the positive picture of Arian and abomination strategy which discouraged people from Arian’s religious opponents by creating their negative image. As a result, three models of the 16th century religious polemics can be distinguished: polemics of invective (rare in the writings of Czechowic), polemics of suggestion (i.e. subtile and hidden persuasive statements) and polemics of arguments.