Friday 26 July 2013

Linguistics, mostly, and back to translation - August 2012 to July 2013.

I am back to translation after months of working in linguistics: 1)  as a research assistant in dialectology and language codification, then 2)  lecturing and tutoring linguistics at the University of Auckland for the first semester 2013, up to June.

Completed in June 2013:  Souvenirs de guerre d'un jeune français. 1939-1945War Diary of a Young Frenchman. 1939-1945. From French into English. To be published both online and in print.

Started in July 2013: Cornishmen and Convicts. Mining and European settlement of the Diahot, northern New Caledonia. / Cornouaillais et Forçats. Exploitation minière et colonisation européenne du Diahot, nord de la Nouvelle Calédonie. From English into French. A History Master's thesis on the 19C mines of New Caledonia. To be published in 2014.