The article concerns the linguistic situation in the Polish village and the need for a new approach in dialectological research. In the 21st century, Polish dialectology becomes a de facto subdiscipline of sociolinguistics. The disintegration of the dialects means that there is a need for new descriptive research in the area that was part of Poland before 1945. In the western and northern territories (until 1945 belonged to Germany), it seems justified to conduct sociolinguistic research taking into account the communicative communities.