%0 Journal Article %T Una aportaci車n al tratamiento de los elementos culturales: el signo ling邦赤stico cultural %A Ver車nica C. Trujillo-Gonz芍lez %J ˋ谷dille : Revista de Estudios Franceses %D 2012 %I Asociaci車n de Profesores de Franc谷s de la Universidad Espa?ola %X This paper goes over some basic concepts of Translation Studies concerning how cultural elements work in the language. The great amount of terminological variety existing, not only in Translation Studies but also in other disciplines like Applied Linguistics, makes it difficult to classify properly such cultural elements. However, and taking into account our preliminary review of the topic, we will introduce a new concept 每the cultural linguistic sign每 and explain its functioning in the language through contrastive analysis (French-Spanish). Likewise, our study aims to show the differences between the so-called cultural linguistic sign and some cultural elements that can be identified in other languages. %K cultural linguistic sign %K translation studies %K culture %K applied linguistic. %U http://webpages.ull.es/users/cedille/8/18trujillo.pdf