Dynamics of Structural and Semantic Characteristics in Verbalizers of Concepts БІЛЬ ‘PAIN’ and МУКА ‘TORMENT’ in Ukrainian Fiction

The paper is devoted to the study of changes in the processes of metaphorization, in particular, focusing on the concepts EIJIh ‘PAIN’ and MYKA ‘TORMENT’. <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$A$</tex> comprehensive methodology combines structural and semantic modeling of metaphors, conceptual analysis, and statistical tools. In GRAC, we created two subcorpora of Ukrainian fiction texts from 1901 to 2000 and 2001 to 2023. Through automatic/automated identification of metaphors, the structural model of verb+noun was identified and analyzed. The list of dominant models of metaphorization of concepts EIJIh ‘PAIN’ and MYKA ‘TORMENT’ is drawn up. Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data is conducted. The statistical indicators (Student's t-test, Spearman's p, PCC) confirm the conclusions about the dynamics of metaphorical changes in concepts and their correlation.