Abstract
Politicians use various linguistic devices that have a pragmatic effect on the audience's consciousness and enable them to reach and attract as many voters as possible to their side. One of these devices is autostereotypes, i.e. opinions and evaluations that are firmly rooted in native speakers' consciousness and attributed to a given national community by its representatives.
The paper is devoted to the analysis of the autostereotypes introduced into Czech politicians' speeches with the expression "We Czechs". Politicians who use autostereotypes deliberately emphasize their belonging to "we"-group.
Moreover, speakers use autostereotypes to interpret reality on the basis of a certain linguistic image of the world.