Abstract
The study outlines cognitive linguistics approaches in the field of sign language, esp. the Czech Sign Language. First, it explains the context of the research and main advantages of these approaches and its starting points (i.e., the cognitive foundations, common both to spoken and sign languages).
Secondly, it summarizes cognitive linguistic studies already conductes at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and thirdly, in the two final sections, it briefly suggests avenues for further research of the Czech Sign Language: 1) the Mark Johnson's theory of image schemas (on the scheme PATH example), and 2) the study of stereotypes based on the linguistic Picture of the world (inspired by the Lublin school of cognitive ethnolinguistics and Jerzy Bartmiński).