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Item Centripetal and Centrifugal Dynamics of the Individual Self in the light of Rousseau’s experience(Journal of Arts and Education 2(1): 1-9, 2007) Yennah, R.The self is the centre of the world or the “trade centre” of social relationships. It thus encounters the world outside of itself and, guided by its physical (pleasure or pain) and moral (good or bad) sensibilities, it adopts either centripetal of centrifugal dynamics, thereby keeping to itself or going out to others, respectively. Drawing lessons from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this paper demonstrates the case of the individual self within the broader society, where it relates to material things, but also to other individual selves or persons. The paper, in line with Rousseau’s thought, concludes that our true self is not always entirely in us.Item Centripetal and Centrifugal Dynamics of the Individual Self in the Light of Rousseau’s Experience(IBB University, Lapai, Nigeria, 2007) Yennah, R.The self is the centre of the world or the “trade centre” of social relationships. It thus encounters the world outside of itself and, guided by its physical (pleasure or pain) and moral (good or bad) sensibilities, it adopts either centripetal of centrifugal dynamics, thereby keeping to itself or going out to others, respectively. Drawing lessons from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this paper demonstrates the case of the individual self within the broader society, where it relates to material things, but also to other individual selves or persons. The paper, in line with Rousseau’s thought, concludes that our true self is not always entirely in us.Item L'Economie du Gabon: Une Economie a la Remorque de son Petrole(University of Ghana, 2014-06) Sandison, A.; Kuto, E.K.; Yennah, R.People cannot co-exist without communication. In the situation where people speaking different languages need to communicate, translation becomes imperative. It is for this reason that many theorists have taken keen interest in the subject of translation. The objective of this dissertation is to underscore some of the difficulties translators encounter in the translation activity and to promote an appreciation of translation techniques that may help translators to provide accurate translations for any source language text. This dissertation is made up of an introduction, an internship report, an original document, an analysis of the problems faced when translating the document, a conclusion and a glossary. The introduction addresses the concept of translation and factors that influence it. It examines some factors that influence translation such as equivalence, text function, linguistic knowledge and social knowledge. Chapter one presents a report on the three month internship undertaken at the end of the MA translation program - place of internship, experience gained as well as challenges encountered. The original document is presented in chapter two and the translated version follows in chapter three. Chapter four analyzes the problems faced when translating the document and the techniques used to resolve them. The conclusion sums up the entire dissertation.Item La contribution des Philosophes des Lumières à la méthodologie de recherche universitaire(Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal, 2012) Yennah, R.This paper proposes to today’s researcher a historical, philosophical and literary perspective of research methodology, based on the reflection of some enlightened minds of the Age of Enlightenment in France (beginning 1600 to late 1700). It argues that by way of proposing to the researcher an intellectual posture and a method for directing the mind, the Enlightenment philosophers such as Descartes, Fontenelle, Voltaire and Rousseau, resorted to justifications and arguments that were particularly striking and therefore enabled one to better apprehend the depth and import of a proper research methodology. The paper provides insights about the special importance the Age of Enlightenment gave to research methodology, at a time when, following the renaissance, there remained the need to clear the minds of the general public of some measure of obscurantism. These intellectual research methods, still valid today, were particularly applied to the search for truth, which for those times, naturally and happily led to the condemnation of aberrations, fanaticism, intolerance, prejudices and all manner of atrocities committed, especially by institutions: the State and the Church.Item Les Difficultés D’emploi Du Passif Par Les Apprenants Du Franҫais Au Niveau S H S: Le Cas D’accra Academy Et St Mary’s S H S(University of Ghana, 2015-05) Mbenjo, K. D.; Agbefle, K. G.; Yeboua, K. D.; Yennah, R.; University of Ghana, College of Humanities, School of Languages, Department of FrenchThis work seeks to analyse the difficulties learners of French at the S H S level have with the transformation of active sentences into passive sentences. We collected data from two Senior High Schools, namely: Accra Academy and St Mary’s Girls’ Senior High, both in the capital city of Ghana. In this study, we used twenty (20) learners from each school, making up a total of forty (40) learners, to enable us get data for the analyses. We used questionnaires and exercises to collect data from the learners. We also used questionnaires and interactions with the French teachers in the schools where we collected data. We used these schools because these students form part of the learners of the French language at the S H S level. For our theoretical framework, we used the constructivism of Jean Piaget, the contrastive analysis of Robert Lado and the error analysis of Stephen Pit Corder. Our analysis was done by looking at how the learners transformed some active sentences into passive sentences. The learners at S H S had difficulties in transforming active sentences into passive sentences. For example, through the use of the theory of error analysis we realized that most of the learners transformed verbs that could not be transformed into passive in French. Some learners used inappropriate prepositions while others also constructed wrong past participles, to mention but a few. This shows that there is an inadequate knowledge of the passive voice. It was also detected that the way they are taught may have led to the difficulty. We also came to the conclusion through the contrastive analysis that their mother tongues might have some influence on the way they have learned the passive voice. This is due to the fact that most Ghanaian languages have no passive structures. This contributed to the problem. The analysis of data collected through questionnaires and exercises eventually confirmed that most learners have difficulties in the construction of the passive sentences. The analysis revealed that little exposure to this concept led to their inability to construct passive sentences correctly. The study therefore, highlights some pedagogical exploitations and suggested ways which can be used to help both teachers and learners in the area of transforming active sentences into passive sentences.Item L’intérêt du Moi Commun chez Rousseau, Diderot et Voltaire : le cas des Accords de Partenariat Économique aujourd’hui(Langues et Littérature (14): 129-148, 2010) Yennah, R.One cannot over emphasise the role of the literature and ideas of the age of enlightenment which, far from being purely literary, were involved in the debate on topical issues while at the forefront of the search for solutions to human problems in order to establish the happiness of man on earth. Our topic adopts the same perspective and aims at establishing the relevance of 18th century literature to some topical issues of the 21st century. While in Rousseau’s Social Contract the theory of the Collective Self (the State) is accompanied by the notion of common interest, Diderot’s Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville demonstrates that self-interest is the actual « motive of the State ». Does this not explain the position of the European Union (EU) which, far from sacrificing any of her interests, rather pushes the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between unequal partners? This research aims at establishing the linkage between the philosophy of self-interest in the 18th century and the economic and trade issues around which the EU is negotiating today with the ACP countries.Item L’intérêt du Moi Commun chez Rousseau, Diderot et Voltaire : le cas des accords de partenariat économique aujourd’hui(Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Sénégal, 2010) Yennah, R.One cannot over emphasise the role of the literature and ideas of the age of enlightenment which, far from being purely literary, were involved in the debate on topical issues while at the forefront of the search for solutions to human problems in order to establish the happiness of man on earth. Our topic adopts the same perspective and aims at establishing the relevance of 18th century literature to some topical issues of the 21st century. While in Rousseau’s Social Contract the theory of the Collective Self (the State) is accompanied by the notion of common interest, Diderot’s Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville demonstrates that self-interest is the actual « motive of the State ». Does this not explain the position of the European Union (EU) which, far from sacrificing any of her interests, rather pushes the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between unequal partners? This research aims at establishing the linkage between the philosophy of self-interest in the 18th century literature and the economic and trade issues around which the EU is negotiating today with the ACP countries.Item Nature, Nurture and the Mathematics of Culture in the Light of Selected Works of Voltaire and Rousseau(Legon Journal of Humanities. ( XIX) : 77- 107, 2007) Yennah, R.The noun “culture” and the verb “cultivate” were frequently used in 18th century French literature in a very special way. Drawing inspiration from this special usage, this paper examines culture as the art or science of shaping, polishing, sifting and enhancing raw nature by borrowing and using the most basic mathematical principles as the tools of the formation process of Man. However, the noble enterprise of nurturing Man and cultivating in him the best values is often compromised and subjected to so many hazards as in the case of the broadcast seed in the biblical parable of the sower.Item Nature, Nurture and the Mathematics of Culture in the Light of Selected Works of Voltaire and Rousseau(Legon Journal of Humanities ( XIX) : 77- 107, 2008) Yennah, R.The noun “culture” and the verb “cultivate” were frequently used in 18th century French literature in a very special way. Drawing inspiration from this special usage, this paper examines culture as the art or science of shaping, polishing, sifting and enhancing raw nature by borrowing and using the most basic mathematical principles as the tools of the formation process of Man. However, the noble enterprise of nurturing Man and cultivating in him the best values is often compromised and subjected to so many hazards as in the case of the broadcast seed in the biblical parable of the sower.Item Nature, Nurture and the Mathematics of Culture in the light of Selected Works of Voltaire and Rousseau.(University of Ghana, Legon, 2008) Yennah, R.The noun “culture” and the verb “cultivate” were frequently used in 18th century French literature in a very special way. Drawing inspiration from this special usage, this paper examines culture as the art or science of shaping, polishing, sifting and enhancing raw nature by borrowing and using the most basic mathematical principles as the tools of the formation process of Man. However, the noble enterprise of nurturing Man and cultivating in him the best values is often compromised and subjected to so many hazards as in the case of the broadcast seed in the biblical parable of the sower.Item Saint-Preux et Julie ou les deux tourtereaux brûlant d’amour : une métaphore filée dans La Nouvelle Héloïse de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.(SIAM-JJR-Montmorency, France, 2011) Yennah, R.Dans Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, le discours amoureux de Julie et de Saint-Preux est dominé par l’imagerie du feu, symbole choisi par les deux amants pour représenter ce qu’ils ressentent l’un pour l’autre depuis les profondeurs de leur être. Les feux et les flammes deviennent une métaphore filée, exploitée et même abusée par les deux tourtereaux. Or, si l’on tirait toutes les conséquences de cette imagerie, on tomberait dans la logique relative à la nature du feu : ce feu qui s’allume, consomme ce dont il s’alimente, et éventuellement s’éteint. Cet article cherche donc à jauger les amours de Saint-Preux et de Julie à l’aune de la nature de ce feu auquel ces amours sont assimilés par les amoureux eux-mêmes.Item The Truth Imagined: The Imposture of Enric Marco as Portrayed in Javier Cercas’ El impostor.(2016-10-27) Afatsawo, D.; Yennah, R.In his El impostor, Javier Cercas, the prolific Spanish writer, sought to unmask Enric Marco, who had lived his public life as a holocaust survivor and anti-Franco crusader, as an imposter. Couched in epistemological (fiction vs reality) and moralistic (truth vs. falsehood) terms, Marco’s imposture is debated against the backdrop of Spain’s most recent history: the Civil war and its aftermath, the Franco dictatorship, the Transición and the fervor of the Memoria histórica. In this presentation, I will read El impostor in light of three questions: a) What is an imposture b) Is an imposture justified and justifiable, and c) Is a public imposture the sign of the times.Item Value as Object of Communicating and Disseminating Products from the Humanities: Enlightenment and Enlightened Perspectives. In: D. D. Kuupole, Arowolo, B. and Bakiri, I. (Eds.) Applied Social Dimensions of Language use and Teaching in West Africa.(University of Cape Coast, pp. 1-21, 2010) Yennah, R.