The Concept of 'empire' in Russian and Czech

The paper is dealing with subject of forming semantic fields. The 'empire' semantic field in 2 languages (Russian, Czech) was chosen as an object of investigation. The paper describes a descriptive statistical method of forming semantic fields based on linguistic corpora. The result is a specific lexicographic product (distrubutive thesaurus) for each language with quantitative characteristics of the connectedness of lexical units. At the last step linguistic correlation between elements of these two thesauri is shown. The research is implemented on the basis of Sketch Engine and Czech National Corpus. In the aspect of theory, we get a fragment of the semantic description of Russian and Czech languages and a description of new methods for analyzing vocabulary and semantics of the language.