Future and climate: representations of the future in French language blogs related to climate change.

Cet article explore la manière dont l’avenir est perçu dans des blogs portant sur les changements climatiques, extraits du corpus NTAP (Networks of Text and People). L’analyse, principalement entreprise dans une perspective lexicale, se concentre sur les périodes 2009-2010 et 2013-2014. Les résultats montrent que les perspectives négatives et pessimistes dominent grandement sur les perspectives positives et optimistes.This article investigates how the future is perceived in blogs related to climate change, extracted from the corpus NTAP (Networks of Text and People). The analysis, mainly undertaken in a lexical perspective, focuses on the periods 2009-2010 and 2013-2014. The results show that the negative and pessimistic perspectives are clearly more prevalent than the positive and optimistic ones.acceptedVersio