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As in このオレさま and この僕も. I know the literal translation, but I never understood
what the intent of it is.
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grammar pronouns demonstratives
What does it mean when この is in front of a personal pronoun?
"The guy standing here in front of you"

"This guy here"

"The guy you're looking at"

"This guy"

"Me here"

## Update

Some clarification as noted by the commenters. Yes, オレ and 僕 or course refer
to the speaker. So the question is, what is the nuance introduced by the
demonstrative adjective この? It is "this me", as opposed to some other "me",
such as a "me" at some other point in time, or a hypothetical "me" in some
other situation. Since "this me" is ungrammatical in English, we need some
other word to stand in for "me", for which I chose "guy", although I suppose
there are equally good alternatives. Another way of introducing this nuance
would be with a formulation such as "right now I..." or "standing here I...".
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I think この usually implies some quality of “me”. You can translate it as
“someone like me”. You can insert some adjectives between この and <first person
pronoun>.

Usually it sounds proud or arrogant, especially in このオレさま.

> フン、この(偉大なる)ヤング様に勝負を挑むなど、百年早いわ！  
>  天才美少女であるこのアタシが教えてあげるんだから、ありがたく思いなさい！

But as [Hyperworm](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/16220/what-
does-it-mean-when-%e3%81%93%e3%81%ae-is-in-front-of-a-personal-
pronoun#comment36475_16220) pointed out, it can be used in exactly the
opposite sense. e.g.

> この(拙い)私でいいの？  
>  この平凡なあたしにも王子様が現れないかな。

I think この私 tends to refer to some positive quality, and こんな私 some negative
quality. But I'm not sure.

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> 「よく聞け！私はお前達とは違うのじゃ！だからして… **この私** に気安く話しかけるでないぞ！分かったか？一般人ども！」 ｂｙ 久地院美華

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3BSKS.jpg)

I think this is a pose of この私. (Does anyone know the name of this pose?)
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**_ko-so-a-do_ -paradigm**  
The words _kono_ , _sono_ , and _ano_ , (interrogative _dono_ ) are deictic
demonstratives. Their deictic meanings operate along a proximal-distal
dimension.

_kono_ = proximal to the speaker  
_sono_ = proximal to the addressee  
_ano_ = distal to both speaker and addressee.

This kind of deictic meaning is not restricted to _kono_ , _sono_ , and _ano_.
There are at least these additional forms:

adnominals: kono, konna [emphatic]  
nominals: kore; koko  
adverbs: koo, konnani [emphatic]; kotira, kotti [emphatic]

This type of deixis is expressed by the entire paradigm, and not only by
_kono_ , _sono_ , and _ano_.

Speakers are always proximal to themselves. Hence, one must use _kono_ with a
pronominal expression referring to the 1st person.

However, _kono_ itself does not express meaning in the modesty-respect
dimension. This dimension is referenced by the pronominal expression: 俺 is far
less modest than 私, and that leads to the differing nuances of この俺 and この私.
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