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The author draws up her attention to a certain, so far unnoticed, methodological problem connected with the presence of regionalisms in literary works written in the common Polish language. Regionalisms most frequently appear in literary works due to writer-intended stylizations. They can also be used in belles-lettres if a writer uses his own regional variety of the national language. This article presents another way for introduction of linguistic regionalisms into literary works – pursuant to the “cognitive-emotional fascination of the region”. According to the author, this notion is not a scientific category, but solely a proper way to describe specific situations in the literature. She bases her considerations on the cognitive-emotional fascination of Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841-1910) by the Polish language of the noble backwoods of the Grodno region in her novels “On the Niemen” and “Bene nati” and of Józef Łobodowski (1909-1988) by the regional Polish language of the Polish-Ukrainian border region in his “Ukrainian Poems”.