User:Mcc980/Linguistic insecurity

Social Media
Speakers of dialects varying from the linguistic standard may also be victims of discrimination in technology causing linguistic insecurity. The MIT social media language filter, Gobo, allows users to adjust their social media feeds to filter to their preference. Feeds were filtered by six categories: politics, seriousness, rudeness, gender, brands, and obscurity. The gender filter creates linguistic discrimination as it does not consider gender non-binary people. This creates linguistic insecurity as non-binary people with pronouns different from the linguistic standard must adhere to the pronouns of the gender binary (she/her/hers/he/him/his). The Gobo platform also filtered out speakers of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) by tagging AAVE under the "rudness" category. This not only discriminates against speakers of AAVE but forces speakers to use Standard American English to be seen when communicating on the internet, creating a linguistic insecurity.

Code Switching
In addition to hypercorrection, code switching may also be performed by people who speak multiple languages and dialects. This may happen when speakers of one language fluently switches to another language in an interaction or conversation. Sociocultural studies code-switching state there is a factor of identity that goes into account when code switching. Identity can play a large role in linguistic insecurity as certain identities experience economic and social advantage. This identity factor is prevalent when marginalized groups switch to speak the more dominant standard language in the interaction.

Linguistic insecurity can arise in multilingual environments in speakers of the non-dominant language or of a non-standard dialect. Issues caused by the linguistic variation range from "total communication breakdowns involving foreign language speakers to subtle difficulties involving bilingual and bidialectal speakers". Multilingual insecurity can cause hypercorrection, code-switching, and shifting registers. Divergence from the standard variety by minority languages causes "a range of attitudinal issues surrounding the status of minority languages as a standard linguistic variety". In multilingual societies, linguistic insecurity and subsequent effects are produced by identity status and marginalization of specific groups.