LINGUOCULTURAL FEATURES OF PROVERBS AND SAYINGS CONTAINING TOPONYMS AND THE LINGUODIDACTIC FOUNDATIONS OF THEIR TEACHING

This article analyzes the linguocultural characteristics of proverbs and sayings containing toponyms, as well as their role in expressing the interrelationship between language and culture. It also highlights how such units reflect the historical, geographical, and social experience of a nation and emphasizes their importance in intercultural communication. The research employs comparative, semantic, and linguocultural analysis methods to examine equivalent proverbs and sayings across different languages. Furthermore, the article discusses the linguodidactic foundations of using toponymic proverbs and sayings in the educational process and substantiates their role in developing learners ’ communicative and intercultural competencies. The findings demonstrate that these linguistic units possess not only theoretical but also practical significance.