mmunication and that these must be understood in the context of a general system which reflects the values and the structure of the society,” (Wolfson 2). What this concept is valuable for is that it shows that no one culture’s sociolinguistic relativity is more important or better than any others. Merely, the culture’s language can only be understood within the rules of their own culture.
The author also gives us examples of speech behaviors in native English-speaking societies which can reveal language patterns in connection to social behaviors in other cultures. Every cultures has routines and behaviors which induce automatic language responses. Wolfson believes that routines illustrate how a society is structures and without them socialization would not occur. The only reason we adopt routines, and we do regardless of our language of culture, is so we can react and communicate with others in a
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