Abstract:

For several languages, including English and Danish, traditional grammatical accounts teaches that one pronoun is used to refer to female persons (English: she, Danish: hun) and another to male persons (English: he, Danish: han). However, this overlooks the non-inconsequential number of people who prefers to be referred to with other pronouns (=chosen pronouns) than the mentioned two. I refer to these pronouns as gender neutral or genderqueer pronouns. Based on a survey conducted in the Fall/Winter of 2017, I provide an overview of the occurrence of gender neutral/genderqueer chosen pronouns in Denmark.

References:

Miltersen, E. (2018). De, den, hen, and the rest. Journal of Language Works - Sprogvidenskabeligt Studentertidsskrift, 3(1), 31-42.https://tidsskrift.dk/lwo/article/view/107538

Speaker:

Ehm Hjorth Miltersen, student of linguistics and cognitive science/semiotics