| Abstract [eng] |
The article analyses the historical alternation of the names of Lithuanian sport organizations and clubs as well as presents the results of the research. The problem of the research is characterized by the following question: do numerous names of Lithuanian sport organizations refl ect the development of the history, culture, and sport of the country. The aim of the research is to analyze the historical-chronological changes in the names of Lithuanian sport organizations (1885–2010) and to present the structural-historiological and value analysis. Sport historiography which consisted of Lithuanian sport statistics as well as published scientifi c works on Lithuanian sport history have been chosen as the units of the research. The methods of the research are the following: the study and analysis of scientifi c literature, documents and sources, descriptive, critical-analytical, statistical methods. Having analysed the names of Lithuanian sport organizations of the period under investigation it has been proven that taking the periods of the country development into account, varying political, ideological, value attitudes, the names of sport organizations, clubs, teams, which refl ected their variety and many-layer features, were changing. Some of them are related to the development of Lithuanian ethnic culture, world-view of ancient Aistians, mythology; others are related to the real historical and cultural personalities; moreover, some of them, identifi ed with the national identity, refl ected the particularity of the country and region, they were associated with the locality, landscape and infl uenced by the development and factors of culture, economics, education. The tendencies of the alternation of sport organization names, historical-chronological changes and their structural-historiological and value analysis are presented with the help of the method of regression analysis. It is stated that the bigger determination rate, the brighter tendency. |
