STABILIZATION OF THE CANICULE GLOSSARY IN FRANCE 2025 AS A NEW VECTOR FOR THE FORMATION OF CLIMATIC CULTURE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the stabilization processes of the canicule glossary in French public discourse in 2025, viewed as an indicator of the formation of a new climate culture. The linguistic material, selected from French mass media, official communications, social networks, and everyday speech, demonstrates that French society is actively adapting linguistic means to represent and conceptualize climatic phenomena. The study identifies the main sources of thematic vocabulary formation: meteorological, medical, instructional, and social and outlines the structural, semantic, and functional features of its use in contemporary discourse. The methodological framework of the research combines contextual-discursive, lexical-semantic, and corpus analysis. It has been established that the vocabulary associated with the phenomenon of canicule is organized into five key thematic fields: Météo et températures, Santé et bien-être, Prévention et conseils, Groupes à risque, and Institutions et dispositifs. Each of them performs a specific communicative function, from informative to instructional and emotional-evaluative. Special attention is paid to the processes of metaphorization and neologization (for example, dôme de chaleur, feu zombie), which reflect the intensity of public perception of climatic anomalies and the emergence of a symbolic dimension in the collective climate experience. The results of the analysis indicate that in 2025, the process of lexical stabilization related to canicule acquired a systemic nature and revealed a close interconnection between linguistic innovations, climatic realities, and socio-cultural transformations. In this context, language appears not only as a descriptive tool but also as an active factor in shaping climate awareness, ecological solidarity, and collective responsibility within French society. The findings open up prospects for further interdisciplinary research within linguistic and cultural studies, sociolinguistics, and ecolinguistics, aimed at exploring the linguistic mechanisms of adaptation to climate change.