On Lexical Gallicisms in Russian Language and the Possibilities of Interlanguage and Intercultural Parallels Creation for Reaching Russian as a Second and Another Foreign Language on the Lexical Level

Abstract

The contribution is devoted to theoretical context of lexical borrowings as one of the ways of possible language lexicon enrichment. Lexical Gallicisms in the Russian language creating the potential of Russian-French interlanguage and intercultural parallels for teaching Russian as second and other foreign language are demonstrated.

These parallels are analysed from the viewpoints of grammar, semantic, culture-historic with the aim to highlight various aspects of vocabulary that contributes to the teaching process optimisation and its effectiveness in the condition of polylingual acquisition.

Keywords

• lexical borrowing
• Lexical Gallicisms
• comparative approach to lexicalization of vocabulary
• interlanguage and intercultural parallels
• Russian as a second foreign language