 We want to prove how it is, I mean gender is a speech act. Before we move forward, I would like to explain one thing more, that in case of conversation analysis and speech act theory, both background identity factors, they have no relevance. But a direct relevance is possible when the participant, the speaker, mention them openly, clearly. Okay, in case of speech act theory, how identity is known? Because the speaker never introduces like conversation analysis, his or her identity, who is talking and what is the age, what is the class, what is the location, etc. For example, here we have discussed in the last module, you are hired. This utterance itself shows that the person is hired and hiring happens when a person works in some organization. The person is professional. So this is how we reach identity of the speaker. Now, we want to prove that gender is a speech act. Aston helps here to know this. He says that whenever we perform a speech act, actually this single act is composition of three acts and we perform these three acts simultaneously. First, we say something. This is called locationary act. We say he involves other modes of talking as well. We say, we speak, are we right, are we signed? We talk through signed language, through gestures, instead of words or sometimes we just use visuals. We talk through paintings, we talk through other things like that. So whatever ways we use, because here our concern is only with speech, we focus on it. It should have some information, some content. It should have accurate form with reference to grammar. The statement, the utterance that carries that statement should be grammatically correct and then it must have meaning. This is locationary act. Then what you say is some act. It carries your intention. It carries illocation. Intention or illocation and sometimes we also call it force, illocationary force. What we have done in uttering something, this is called illocationary act. We might have promised, we might have invited, we might have warned somebody, we might have advised somebody. So promising, inviting, advising, these are illocationary act. The third thing is when you have uttered something, what is the effect of that utterance on your address? This is called collocation or collocationary act. So first you say something, collocationary act, then you perform some act by saying something. This is a collocationary act and then that gives some effect that shows some effect and influence on the address. This is collocationary effect. For example, after your utterance, the address may agree, may reply, may take some action, may bring something for you or simply may remain silent or there is another possibility that the address leaves you alone. All these are collocations. Aston says that we are concerned only with illocation. He says, collocation is matter of grammar and semantic. This is outside our concern. And he says collocation, we don't need it because this is not in control of the speaker. So that's why he says when we talk about speech act, that only means illocationary act. But unless collocationary act is not considered, how can we say that what we intended was performed? Whether our promise is understood as promise? Our order is understood as order. Our advice is understood as advice. How can we do that unless we don't consider collocation? That's why collocation is necessary, essential and especially in the context of discourse, language and gender, we do need this collocation. It is the Pollocation Act that is the response of the address which is important to reach speaker's intentions because this is the way that takes us to illocation. Otherwise, intention is in mind. Nobody can directly reach that. Nobody can, we just only approximate it and the only way is that we note its effect on the address. This is also the way we can understand relationship between intention of the speaker and gender, the language use and gender. How? Because this conveys what the speaker thinks about gender. For example, I advise you where trousers, this is a trend, we call it a locution, this is what we say. Now it is an advice, this is the intention, we call it a locution. Now if the address is equal and where trousers? So this is Pollocation. After that we can understand that this was an advice but our task won't finish here with reference to language and gender. Why does this advice was given to the girl? It would tell us the gender ideology of the speaker. This is how Pollocation helps us to know the relationship between language and gender. The word advice indicates that the address is advice and the address he takes this advice then she wears it. The advice is gender, how do we know that? Because in some cultures, parents and elders and teachers they advise girls that you want to wear pants or knickers, you should wear trousers. So we conclude from this module that success of Speech X depends on the intended Pollocation. From Pollocation we can judge, we can assess whether a speech act is performed or not. And from Pollocations we also know whether our talk or speech act was gendered or not.