Verbal-Cultural Palimpsests as Tools for Acculturation

Abstract

This article invites to reconsider the cultural values –in case of natives, and to adapt to a foreign culture -in case of learners. In this respect, we look into verbocultural palimpsests, appreciated and examined by Robert Galisson within his lexiculture. The present corpus -collected within common settings of Russian, French and Spanish languages is only a simple nod to the exploration of the cultural words. It refers to titles of books, TV programmes, sites, advertising slogans, headlines, songs, and also includes verbal operations, forms of communication, proverbs, idioms and sayings