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Nounself pronouns: 3rd person personal pronouns as identity expression

@inproceedings{Miltersen2016NounselfP3,
  title={Nounself pronouns: 3rd person personal pronouns as identity expression},
  author={Ehm Hjorth Miltersen},
  year={2016}
}
This paper is an examination of and attempt at a preliminary definition of nounself pronouns, which are a large number of newly invented English 3rd person personal pronouns that have not been previously studied. The pronouns are created and used primarily by a virtual community on the blogging platform tumblr.com, with the first occurrence of a nounself pronoun in late 2013. The study is based on data from 134 responses to a questionnaire written by the author, distributed through tumblr.com… 
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