CURRICULUM VITAE

ERKKI  ALARIK AHLSTRÖM

Address: 11 rue Albert Dupeyron, 33150 Cenon, France

Telephone: + 33 5 56 86 46 72 or +33 6 89 89 37 52

STUDIES

Diplomas

PhD Linguistics, University of Bordeaux 3, 2010.

Certified Translator’s Diploma (French-Finnish), 2000

PhD, French linguistics, Jyväskylä, (Finland) 2001

Master of Arts, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) 1992

Subjects: English, major subject, 115 ECTS credits (honours )

Romance Philology, (French)  115 ECTS credits (honours)

Sociology, 60 ECTS credits (honours)

Philosophy, 66 ECTS credits (honours)

Social Psychology 39 ECTS credits (honours)

Spanish 25 ECTS credits (honours)

Pedagogy 25 ECTS credits

Pedagogical studies

Teacher Qualification for all Finnish educational institutions, 50 ECTS credits, University of Tampere

Course in Suggestopedia, University of Jyväskylä 1986

Reengineering language teaching, 22 ECTS credit, University of Jyväskylä

Work-shop for pedagogic proficiency for university teachers, 9 ECTS credits, University of Tampere

Other studies

Exchange student at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, USA,  Spring Term 1982

Language course (French) at Centre international d’études françaises, cours supérieur Summer 1984, Dijon, France

Language course (Spanish) at Colegio Nueva Universidad de Granada, Spain, Summer 92

Language course at APRE Institut culturel français Montpellier, France, niveau supérieur,  Summer 1995

Pedagogical course (French) at CAVILAM,   Vichy, France, on the use of television in teaching, Summer 1997.

Pedagogical course for teachers of French at Centre International d’Antibes, France, summer 1998

Pedagogical course for teachers of French on computer applications in teaching in Besançon, France, summer 1999

MAJOR TRANSLATIONS INTO FINNISH

Thompson, Garry: The Museum Environment. Butterworths, for the National Board of Vocational Education 1991 (English-Finnish)

Buisson, André: Le dessin des tuyauteries industrielles. Entreprise moderne d’édition. for the National Board of Vocational Education 1991

Regular (French-Finnish)

“Epurations des eaux”, for the association of Finnish Galvanizers (French-Finnish)

“ISS, International Space Station”, for ESA (English-Finnish)

(numerous shorter translations in different fields as I work with translations part-time since 15 years…)

Tenders (+100 000 words) for highway construction projects (Vinci, Bouygues), training programs for PSA (Peugeot-Citroën), business software translations (Nike), and so forth.   

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Paper read Aspectos de la poesía ganivetiano en francés presented at the International Angel Ganivet Congress at the University of Tampere, Spring 1998.

Paper Syllepse et reprise en français presented at Summer School of Linguistics at the University of Jyväskylä, Spring 1999.

Paper Aspects de la pronominalisation en français presented at the Annual Congress of Linguistics at the University of Turku, Spring 1999.

Paper Délimitation de l’anaphore associative presented at the Nordic Congress of Romance Studies in Stockholm, Summer 1999.

Paper Read: The Semantics-Pragmatics interface Revisited, European Society of Philosophy and Psychology, intervention, July 2002.

Article (2000) Analyse linguistique : sémantique et pragmatique.  Havu, J. (ed) Introduction aux études françaises.  Université de Tampere

Article (2004) “Argument in Favour of Descriptive Theory of Names” in Pragmalinguistica (Cadiz)

Paper read " Complex Demonstratives in Finnish and in English”, 3rd International Congress of Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics, September 2005, Shanghai, China.

Paper read “Unicité et anaphore associative en français et en finnois”   Colloque International, Anaphore et ses réalisations discursives, Tunis, February 2006.

Paper read: From Demonstratives to Definite Article, 52^nd Annual ILA congress, March 30^th 2007, Hunter College, New York, NY.

Article (2010) "Complex Demonstratives in Finnish and in English”, in D. Shu & K. Turner (eds), Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Full-time posts

Translator, free lance, 1.4.2002-

Interpreter and translator, France Finlande Services, January 1^st 2001-March the 1st 2002

Project coordinator at the University of Tampere, Langue et société françaises (teaching and administration) 1997-2001 (leave of absence 2001)

Language teacher at the Institute of Kotka 1989-7 (English, French, Spanish)

Language teacher at the Institute of Lohja, 1985-9 (English, French, Spanish)

Part-time employment

Kotka Nursing College, lecturer (English) 1992-7

University of Helsinki, open university, lecturer in French and English, language courses (English for international commerce, BA French translation & grammar etc) also in private companies 1996-7.

Kymenlaakso Chamber of Commerce, language consultant (commercial English, translations of EU-documents from French into English), 1995

Language school Alfa (Kotka), French and Spanish in private companies, 1995-7

Language school Living Language (Kotka), English in private companies,1995-7

Kymenlaakso Polytechnic, lecturer in French and English, 1996-7, English for the staff the bilingual (English-Finnish) program in international commerce and logistics, preparation for the Cambridge Diploma of Advanced English.

Guest lecturer at the University of Strasbourg-Marc Bloch, Spring, 1999.

University of Jyväskylä, Open University, lecturer in French, 1998-99.