Ahran Kim

(金アラン)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Center for Language Education and Research, Sophia University

Degree: Master of International Cultural Studies(Tohoku University)
Ph.D. in International Cultural Studies(Tohoku University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201301076993460670
researchmap Member ID: 7000004666

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics /

Research History

Apr, 2018 - Present

Associate Professor, Center for Language Education and Research, Sophia University
Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Part-time Lecturer, Global Education Center, Waseda University
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Instructor, Center for Public Programs, Sophia University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2018

Assistant Professor, Center for Language Education and Research, Sophia University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2018

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of Asian Languages, Korean Major, Kanda University of International Studies

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2026 - Present

Public Relations Committee Member, The Japanese Association of Korean Language Education
Apr, 2024 - Present

Organizing Committee Member, The Japanese Association of Korean Language Education
Apr, 2023 - Present

Program Committee Member, The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Director of Research, The Japanese Association of Korean Language Education
Mar, 2017 - Feb, 2019

Director of External Affairs, The Japanese Culture Association of Korea

Papers

Self-Transcription and Self-Feedback on Learners’ Own Speech in Advanced Korean Classes

Ahran Kim

Journal of Korean Language Education Research, (15) 45-63, Nov, 2025 Peer-reviewed
A Study on the Mixed Use of Honorific and Non-honorific Expressions

Ahran Kim

Journal of Korean Language Education Research, (14) 45-64, Nov, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Usage Patterns of Honorific Expressions in Korean TV Home Shopping Discourse

Ahran Kim

Lingua, (34) 85-101, Dec, 2023
Korean Addressee Honorifics from the 1970s to the 1990s: An Analysis Based on Movie Dialogue Data

Ahran Kim

Lingua, (33) 89-106, Dec, 2022
Korean Addressee Honorifics from the 1950s to the 1960s: An Analysis Based on Movie Dialogue Data

Ahran Kim

Lingua, (32) 31-47, Dec, 2021
Non-use of the Honorific Marker -si- in Korean Polite Speech: A Corpus-based Study

Ahran Kim

Lingua, (31) 35-51, Dec, 2020
Intimacy and Discourse Development Patterns: Focusing on Disagreement Scenes

Ahran Kim

Journal of Japanese Culture, (77) 199-217, May 31, 2018 Peer-reviewed
On the Realization of ‘-a/e tulita’ in Contemporary Korean: Considering Substitution with ‘-a/e cwuta’

Ahran Kim

Annual Journal of Korean Linguistics, (13) 67-85, Apr 1, 2017 Peer-reviewed
A Contrastive Study of Upshifts in Non-polite Speech Styles in Korean and Japanese

Ahran Kim

Journal of Japanese Culture, (72) 87-112, Feb, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Realization of Imperative Sentences in the Hayyo Style: Based on College Students’ Natural Conversations

Ahran Kim

Annual Journal of Korean Linguistics, (10) 29-43, Apr, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Realization and Factors of Speech Level Shift in Korean: A Movie Script–based Analysis

Ahran Kim

Annual Journal of Korean Linguistics, (9) 55-78, Apr 1, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Speech Level Shift in Korean and Japanese Films: Focusing on the Concept of ‘Domain’

Ahran Kim

Japanese and X Languages in Contrast 2: Japanese through the Lens of Foreign Languages, 93-104, Aug 20, 2012
Korean and Japanese Directive Sentences: Focusing on Direct Forms

Ahran Kim

Journal of Japanese Culture, (53) 5-28, May 31, 2012 Peer-reviewed
The Shift from Hay Style to Handa Style in Spoken Discourse

Ahran Kim

Festschrift in Honor of Professor Yoon Myung-ro’s Retirement, 279-293, Feb 25, 2012
The Relationship between Sentence Type and the Attitude Expressed by the Impolite Hanta Forms in Korean: How Younger People Use Them When Speaking to Their Elders

Ahran Kim

Journal of Politeness and Communication Studies, (9) 49-64, Jan 1, 2012 Peer-reviewed
Speech Level Shift in Korean Non-polite Style: Focusing on Age, Gender, and Sentence Types

Ahran Kim

Journal of International Cultural Studies, (17) 27-39, Mar 31, 2011 Peer-reviewed

Presentations

A Study of Korean and Japanese Honorific Usage through Japanese Translations in Business Korean Textbooks

Ahran Kim

The 69th Autumn International Conference of the Japanese Language and Literature Association, Dec 13, 2025
An Analysis of Honorific Usage in Business Korean Textbooks

Ahran Kim

The 16th International Conference of the Japanese Association for Korean Language Education（JAKLE）, Nov 8, 2025
A Study of Honorific Usage in the Films Dorodarake no Junjō (1963) and Maenbareui Cheongchun (1964)

Ahran Kim

The 68th International Conference of the Korean Association for Japanese Culture, Sep 20, 2025
Self-Transcription and Self-Feedback on Learners’ Own Speech in Advanced Korean Classes

Ahran Kim

The 15th International Conference of the Japanese Association for Korean Language Education（JAKLE）, Nov 9, 2024
A Study of Addressee Honorifics in Korean in the 1950s and the 1960s

Ahran Kim

The 12th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Korean Language Education（JAKLE）, Nov 7, 2021

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Developing a Pedagogical Method for Acquiring Subject Honorifics in Korean

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2028

Ahran Kim
A Contrastive Study of Changes in the Use of Honorifics in Japanese and Korean: Focusing on the “Lack of Honorifics” and “Excessive Honorifics”

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Ahran Kim
A Study on the Criteria for the Non-use of Honorific Forms in Contemporary Korean: Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Perspectives

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Ahran Kim
A Contrastive Study on the Relationship Between Intimacy and Speech Level Choice in Japanese and Korean

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

Ahran Kim

Social Activities

Contrastive Analysis of Korean and Japanese for Korean Language Education (Responsible for the section on honorifics and language behavior)

Lecturer

Outreach Center for Korean Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies, Korea University, K-MOOC (Korea Massive Open Online Course), Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025
Member of the Judging Panel, 30th Korean Speech Contest for Korean Students Living in Japan

Panelist

Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Jun 22, 2024 - Jun 22, 2024
Member of the Judging Panel, 24th Tokyo Korean Language Speech Contest

Panelist

Tokyo Korean Education Center, Nov 11, 2023 - Nov 11, 2023
Member of the Judging Panel, 23rd Tokyo Korean Language Speech Contest

Panelist

Tokyo Korean Education Center, Dec 3, 2022 - Dec 3, 2022
A Contrastive Study of Speech Level Shift in Japanese and Korean

Guest

Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation, Nagoya University, 25th Public Lecture of the Applied Linguistics Seminar, Dec 3, 2014 - Dec 3, 2014

Other

（Qualifications）Completed a Korean Language Teacher Training Program, Secondary School Teaching Certificate (Japanese Language, Level 2), Secondary School Teaching Certificate (Korean Language, Level 2)

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