After gaining independence in Lithuania (1990), the problem of retaining national individuality still remains a point at issue. National self-consciousness is a distinctive aspect of social self-consciousness. It is related to national identity - an individual being with the same ethnic community, considering it his/her nation. In the view of structure, national sel-consciousness acts as the unit of three components - cognitive, emotional and controlling. Development of Lithuanian national self-consciousness is related to its upbringing. Especially favourable conditions for upbringing national self – consciousness are at the teen-age, by consolidating and defining national identity of a person. Historically, in order to form, strengthen and consolidate mature national self-consciousness, attention to the national language, culture and education was paid. Possibilities of upbringing national self-consciousness are pointed out in the contemporary educational documents as well. National self-consciousness upbringing of junior guides by means of art works on national topics, is a scientific problem at issue. A guide is a person, that presents country, region, city, all the national history and cultural objects to tourists. Informal activity plays especially great role in upbringing self-consciousness of junior guides. Presumptions for national self-consciousness upbringing are laid in the art classes, by integrating principals of tourism and regional studies, stimulating... [to full text]

The Objective of the Research - to determine the content of the national identity of Lithuanian students, the peculiarities of its expression and to reveal various psychosocial factors influencing national identity.

Bakalauro darbe iš gautų anketinių duomenų ištirtos Skuodo apylinkių – Vižančių, Kervių, Šarkės, Luknių – šnektos sociolingvistiniu aspektu. Svarbiausios analizuotos sritys yra kalbos vartojimas, požiūris į kalbos vartojimą, tautinė ir tarminė savimonė. Iš įrašų, transkribuotų rišlių šnektų tekstų aprašytos fonetinės ypatybės, būdingos šnektoms. Apklausti ir įrašyti 28 skirtingų kartų pateikėjai: jaunesniosios, vidurinės, vyresniosios. Tyrimas parodė, kad tarminė kalba vyrauja bendraujant šeimoje, su pažįstamais, kaimynais, gyvūnais, galvojant, skaičiuojant. Kalbėjimas žiniasklaidoje, rašto kalba kaip tinkamesnė suvokiama lietuvių bendrinė kalba. Dainuoti derami abu kalbėjimo variantai. / The Bachelor's paper examines the sub-dialects of Skuodas District - Vižančiai, Kerviai, Šarkė, Luknės - in sociolinguistic perspective based on the obtained questionnaire data. The main analysed areas are the use of language, approach to the language use, and ethnic and dialectal self-consciousness. We have described the phonetic features characteristic of the sub-dialects from the records and transcribed cohesive texts of the sub-dialects. 28 informants of different generations: younger, middle, senior were interviewed and recorded. The research showed that the dialectal language prevailed in communication with family, friends, neighbours, animals, as well as when thinking, counting. The Lithuanian standard language is perceived as more appropriate for speaking in the media and for the written language. Both speech versions are proper for singing.