https://doi.org/10.31174/SEND-Ph2021-260IX76-06 

Abstract. The article defines the concept of linguistic corpus of texts as a collection of electronic texts, which is characterized by such distinctive features as: representativeness, authenticity, selectivity, balance, machine readability (V. V. Zhukovska); two corpora are described: 1) for English – British National Corps (BNC), which is characterized by a volume of 100 million words, the use of full texts instead of samples of texts, a subcorpus of oral speech (10 million words), the presence of partial language mark-up and access via the Internet; 2) for Ukrainian – General Regionally Annotated Corpus of Ukrainian (GRAC), which is a large representative collection of texts in Ukrainian accompanied by a program that enables customization of subcorpora, searching words, grammatical forms and their combinations as well as post-processing of the query results. The query can be sorted, balanced samples can be extracted and different statistical information collected. A key aspect of any verification is a synonym series, which is defined as a set of words and phrases that are semantically equivalent and used to express the same concept and phenomenon of objective reality. Two methodological procedures were performed: 1) lexicographic verification as a procedure for finding synonymous series in lexicographic sources for English lexemes crisis, pandemic, stress, adventure, opposition, as well as for Ukrainian lexemes криза, пандемія, стрес, пригода, протистояння, which allow to reveal the essence the concept of “resilience” / “резилентність”; 2) corpus verification as a procedure for determining the frequency of English lexemes crisis, pandemic, stress, adventure, opposition, represented in the BNC, and Ukrainian lexemes криза, пандемія, стрес, пригода, протистояння, represented in GRAC. It is concluded that if for English the most frequent were opposition – 8617, crisis – 5643, then for Ukrainian –криза – 65634, пригода – 41882.