Chad D. Nilep

Nagoya, Japan

Institute of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku
Nagoya 464-8601
Japan

Education

Ph. D in Linguistics, University of Colorado, December 2009
M.A. in Linguistics, Arizona State University, May 1997
B.A. in Liberal Arts, magna cum laude, University of North Dakota, May 1993

Academic positions

Nagoya University, 2010-present
Designated Associate Professor (特任准教)
Institute of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Academic Writing Unit

CSU-Global Campus, 2009
Instructor
Communication

University of Colorado, Boulder 2001-2008
Graduate Part-time Instructor
Department of Linguistics

University of Colorado, Denver Spring 2007
Instructor, Linguistic Anthropology
Department of Anthropology

University of Idaho 1999-2001
Instructor
American Language and Culture Program

Washington State University Spring 2000
Faculty adjunct
Intensive American Language Center

ICS English School 1998-1999
English teacher
Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan

Literacy Volunteers of Maricopa County 1997-1998
ESL Specialist

Seowon University Summer 1997
Visiting Faculty
Department of English Language

Courses taught include:

  • Fundamentals of Academic Writing, introduces basic skills of research writing and logical thinking to help graduate students develop from readers into academic writers
  • Developing Academic Writing, develops skills of research writing, helps graduate students understand how to incorporate sources and to write a literature review
  • Academic Writing, focuses on writing logical, well-organized academic papers
  • Academic English Seminar, discusses social topics such as bureaucratic discourse, political philosophy, or pedagogy, while mastering English as a foreign language
  • Language and Culture, introduction to linguistic anthropology for third and fourth year students in linguistics or anthropology
  • Language in US Society, non-technical introduction to American speech and aspects of language policy in the United States
  • Introduction to Linguistics, technical overview and introduction to the field for linguistics or speech and hearing science majors
  • Semantics, theoretical and practical investigation of meaning in language

Publications

Journal Articles
Nilep, Chad. 2015. "Ideologies of language at Hippo Family Club." Pragmatics 25(2), 205-227.

Hsu, Peihsin and Chad Nilep. 2015. "Authenticity in indigenous tourism: the provider's perspective." International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 8(2).

Lai, Wai Ling and Chad Nilep. 2014. "Logical thinking education to combat plagiarism." Studies in Language and Culture 36(1), 175-189.

Nilep, Chad. 2013. "Distinct functions of quotative markers: Evidence from Meidai Kaiwa Corpus." Studies in Language and Culture 35(1), 87-103.

Cantrell, Akiyo and Chad Nilep. 2012. "'You are contagious': When talk of radiation fears overwrites the truth." NU Ideas 1(1), 15-19.

Nilep, Chad. 2009. "Sibling interaction and symbolic capital: Toward a theory of political micro-economy." Journal of Pragmatics 41(9), 1683-1692. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.02.005

Nilep, Chad. 2006. "'Code switching' in sociocultural linguistics." Colorado Research in Linguistics 19.

Grivicic, Tamara and Chad Nilep. 2004. "When phonation matters: The use and function of yeah and creaky voice." Colorado Research in Linguistics 17.

Nilep, Chad. 2004. "Practice and domination: Notes toward a theory of political micro-economy." Colorado Research in Linguistics 17.

Books and chapters
Hall, Kira and Chad Nilep. 2015. "Code-switching, identity, and globalization." In D. Tannen, H. Hamilton, and D. Schiffrin (eds.) The Handbook of Discourse Analysis second edition, pp. 597-619. Malden: Blackwell.

Nilep, Chad. 2013. "Promising without speaking: Military realignment and political promising in Japan." In A. Hodges (ed.) Discourses of War and Peace, pp 145-167. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Hodges, Adam and Chad Nilep (eds.). 2007. Discourse, War and Terrorism. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Hodges, Adam and Chad Nilep. 2007. "Introduction: Discourse, war and terrorism." In A. Hodges and C. Nilep (eds.) Discourse, War and Terrorism, pp. 1-17. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Conference proceedings
Nilep, Chad. 2017. "Analyzing distinct varieties of plagiarism." In Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking. NU Ideas 6: 91-99.

Nilep, Chad (ed.) 2017. Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking. NU Ideas 6.

Nilep, Chad (ed.) 2015. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking. NU Ideas 4(2).

Nilep, Chad and Simon Potter (eds.) 2013. Proceedings of the Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking. NU Ideas 2(2).

Nilep, Chad. 2004. "Identity and code choice." In Xoán Paulo Rodríguez Yáñez, Anxo M. Lorenzo Suárez, and Fernando Ramallo, Actas do II Simposio Internacional sobre o Bilingüismo. Vigo, Galicia, Spain: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo.

Nilep, Chad and Junko Fujimoto. 2003. "Animating functions of quotative particles to and tte in spoken Japanese." JSLS 2003 The 5th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Science. 60-65.

Dissertation
Nilep, Chad. 2009. Articulating a Transnational Family: "Hippo Family" Language Learners in Japan and the USA. Doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder. Proquest Dissertations and Theses 2009, AAT 3387544.

Book reviews
2010. Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics by Niko Besnier (2009). eLanguage.

2008. Language and Education in Japan by Yasuko Kanno (2008). LINGUIST List 19.3806.

2007. Negotiation of Contingent Talk by Emi Morita (2005). Language in Society 36(1), 144-145.

2006. Negotiation of Identity in Multilingual Contexts by Aneta Pavlenko and Adrian Blackledge (eds) (2004). Journal of Pragmatics 38(2), 276-281.

2006. Language and Society in Japan by Nanette Gottlieb (2005). Journal of Pragmatics 38(8), 1313-1318.

2005. Different Games/Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other by Haru Yamada (2002). Journal of Pragmatics 37(1), 99-102.

2004. Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice by Paul Chilton (2004). Journal of Pragmatics 36(12), 2197-2201.

2004. Book Notice: Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other by Haru Yamada (2002). Language 80(4), 905.

Conference Presentations

"Promises, lies, and bullshit: The role of intent." 20th Annual Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Kyoto, December 17, 2017.

"Analyzing distinct varieties of plagiarism." Third International Symposium on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking, Nagoya, February 18, 2017.

"What the heck is wrong with plagiarism?" Mei-Writing Workshop Series, Nagoya, June 14, 2016.

"On bullshitology: The history of 'women's language' and the future of 'pseudo-profound bullshit'." International Gender and Language Association, Hong Kong, May 20, 2016.

Teaching Language and Culture: Approaches from World Anthropologies (roundtable discussion). 114th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Denver, November 18, 2015. (Evelyn Dean-Olmsted, P. Kerim Friedman, Tzu-kai Liu, Chad Nilep, Susana Skura, and Christopher Jenks)

"Beyond Speaker Intent: Polyphony in Political Promising." 111th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 14, 2012.

"Metaphorical Promising: Joint Construction of Political Speech." Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan, Kyoto, December 4, 2011.

Play in Language Learning and Language Socialization (panel discussion). 109th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20, 2010. (Chad Nilep, Sarah Van Deusen Phillips, Begona Echeverria, Sonia Das, Roberto de Roock, and Erin Debenport)

"Group Play and Public Education: Hippo Family Club's Critique of Language Learning in Japan." 109th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20, 2010.

"'Transnational' Citizenship: Practices of Language Learning among Hippo Family Club Members in Two Nation-States." 108th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 3, 2009.

"Marketing International Fellowship: Foreign-language Learning in Japan and the US." 106th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 28, 2007.

"Language, Learning, and Globalization: Interdisciplinary Investigation of Foreign Language Learners." CLASP Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture, Language and Social Practice, University of Colorado Boulder, October 7, 2007.

"Local Practices of Global Language Learning: Hippo Family Club in Japan and the United States." Language and Globalization: Policy, Education and Media, Georgetown University, March 30, 2007.

"Ideology in Foreign Language Learning." (Applied Linguistics SIG forum address) CoTESOL Fall Conference and Exhibition, October 28, 2006.

言語の勉強と言語の遊び:ヒッポファミリクラブにおける観察 [Language study and language play: Observations at Hippo Family Club]. The Japan Foundation Kansai Center, May 7, 2006.

"Identity Construction in Family Interaction." The Language and Identity Tapestry: Linguistic re/presentation of identities in social interaction, Georgetown University, February 20, 2005.

"Power, domination, and control: The political economy of sibling interaction." Poster presentation. Third International Gender and Language Association conference, Cornell University, June 5, 2004.

Discourse, War and Terrorism (panel discussion). Society for Linguistic Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, November 19, 2004. (with Adam Hodges)

"Animating functions of quotative particles to and tte in spoken Japanese." Japanese Society for Language Sciences, Kobe University, July 5, 2003. (with Junko Fujimoto)

"Effective peer editing in the ESL composition classroom." CoTESOL/Rocky Mountain TESOL Fall Convention, Longmont Colorado, November 9, 2002. (with Gilana Rivkin)

"Identity and code choice." II Simposio Internacional sobre o Bilingüismo, Universidade de Vigo, October 26, 2002.

"Nihonjin rashiku: Code-switching and identity in Japanese/English bilinguals." LASSO XXXI, California State University, Los Angeles, October 4, 2002.

"A stroll through the valley of the shadow of death: The comedy of death in the films of Woody Allen." Third Graduate Linguistics/TESL Symposium, Arizona State University, March 24, 1997.

"Applying script-model grammar to gallows humor presented in the form of screen plays." Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium, Arizona State University, March 8, 1997.

"Laughter problematic: Toward a grammar of gallows humor in American cinema." Languaging: The Ninth Annual Conference on Linguistics and Literature, Denton Texas, February 7, 1997. (with Kristine McCrady and Janet McConnell)

"Dialectical difference in Arabic word order." Language Origins Society, University of Maryland, July 15, 1996.

Service

Scientific committee, Symposia on Academic Writing and Critical Thinking; 2013, 2015, 2017

Digital Content Editor, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 2011-2016

SLA blogger, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, 2009-2011

Faculty adviser, NU Ideas journal, Nagoya University, 2011-present

Editor, Colorado Research in Linguistics, 2006-2009

Editorial board member, Colorado Research in Linguistics, 2003-2006

Conference paper reviewer, Culture, Language and Social Practice Conference, Boulder, October 5-7, 2007

Book proposal reviewer, Routledge, 2002

Manuscript reviewer, Prentice Hall, 2010

Reviewer, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology; Journal of Language and Politics; Language and Linguistics Compass; Nordic Journal of African Studies; Colorado Research in Linguistics

Service learning coordinator, Literacy Practicum, University of Colorado Department of Linguistics, 2003-2007

Executive Board member, Colorado TESOL, 2001-2003

Facilitator, Linguistics Circle, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001-2003

Chair, Applied Linguistics, New Discoveries in ESL: CoTESOL 27th Annual Fall Convention and Exhibition, Denver, November 7-8, 2003.

Associate Chair, Applied Linguistics, Reaching the Peaks: 26th Annual CoTESOL/XVIII Rocky Mountain TESOL Fall Convention, Longmont Colorado, November 8-9, 2002.

Conference organizer, Options and Opportunities: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Boulder, November 6, 2002.

Chair, Phonetics and Phonology, Fourth Graduate Linguistics/TESL Symposium, Arizona State University, March 24, 1998.

Grants and Fellowships

External

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2017-2019 (with Wai Ling Lai and Nicolas Baumert)

National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2008-10

Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Program for Specialists, 2005-06

Internal

Scientific Research Fund, Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University, 2010-2014

University of Colorado Department of Linguistics Travel Fund, 2009

Eaton Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2007

Department of Linguistics Student Research Fund, 2007

Culture, Language and Social Practice mini-grant, 2005

United Government of Graduate Students Travel Grant, 2004

University of Colorado Dept. Linguistics Travel Fellowship, 2004

College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Fund for Excellence, 2002 (with Laura Michaelis)

University of Colorado Graduate School Student Travel Grant, 2002

University of Colorado Dept. Linguistics University Fellowship, 2001

Professional Memberships

  • American Anthropological Association
  • Society for Linguistic Anthropology
  • Linguistic Society of America
  • Pragmatics Society of Japan
  • International Gender and Language Association

Research Specializations

linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, bilingualism and code switching, discourse analysis, humor theory, second language acquisition and second language teaching

Languages

  • English, native speaker
  • Japanese, second language speaker
  • Spanish, reading ability, basic speaking ability
  • French, reading ability
  • Lakota, notions