The authors aim to show that the image schemas on which metaphorical uses of language are based can be revealed through the gestures that accompany them. This is due to gestures being not so much signs of the images of words but rather images of thoughts, and their image-like nature included in spatial movement is a pictorial representation of a thought gestalt. Gestures also demonstrate that humans feel the need to make more concrete what they perceive as abstract. The need to familiarize the world of abstract expressions is probably a feature of the human system of conceptualization. Such familiarization takes place by referring to the physicality of the human existence, and gestures naturally render that primarily manipulative character of our interaction with the physical environment. Therefore, the world of gestures reveals the image-like nature of the world of thoughts. (Antas Zalazinska)