 In previous modules, we have talked about the study of relationship between language and gender through placing our study, our research in local perspective. Through, how can we go to local perspective? Through, involving with local communities, with local social groups. We become gender members in local community. This process starts, first of all, with our membership to such local groups. These communities or practices are like our classroom, our gym, some club, etc. This membership brings us new relations with new people in new context. And when we have relations, we are involved in talk, in communication with other people. And this gives us identity. This gives us established membership of that group. How this whole process takes place, let's try to understand it. Our interaction in local communities help us to understand that we call construct. Throughout in this discussion, we are talking about gender construction, reconstruction and deconstruction. By using different disciplines, different theories and drawing on different perspective. So, this term is being repeated and it will go on being repeated throughout the course. Our interaction would help us to understand, to construct ourselves as a man and a woman and others. First of all, we would understand our authority, our identity, our rights by being member of these groups. We interact with symbolic systems of local communities. When we are part of them, we also know the symbolic resources of those communities. What do we mean by that? We mean their dress, their ways of moving, gaze, touch, etc. So, these things also have meaning and they also vary from community to community. So, first of all, being their member, we have to learn these things. This participation in practices of local communities enhances our language. So, we formally have only linguistic resources. Now, we enhance this resource by including nonverbal resources of talk into that. And another thing is, this participation also enhances our gendered selves. What were our ideas about being a male and female? They are also enhanced now, developed now. We further understand our maleness and femaleness by this participation. Here is a task to understand these ideas, this process of thinking or looking gender locally. What would be your response to a research finding? That says women prefer relations and men prefer status in their talk. This is a finding of some research. Now, how would you react to this? What would be your own response to this statement? You have to do this to understand these ideas in practical terms. Research, we would conclude that if we conduct research to understand what is meant by understanding our construction of gender in local perspective. So, we should focus on language-gender interface and should avoid claims on the basis of generalizations. Practices in local communities cannot be ignored. These local communities are called communities of practice.