 Members of a speech community are community of practice within a speech community. Our networks within community of speech, they take part in different speech activities. For example, lecturing is speech activity, speeches involved in it. Gusping is speech activity, joking, arguing, small talk, purposeless talk, that is called small talk. So all these involve speech, that's why we call them speech activities. So here to clarify this concept of speech activities, we have a short talk. Write short notes on these activities and when you write notes on these activities you will write what is the role of speech in all of these activities. Same speech activity can have different features in different contexts. Argument in academic community versus argument at dinner table. At both places we are doing the same speech activity, that is arguing. But if this argument is among academics, that would be totally different from that argument that is being conducted among family members at a dinner table. They are second. The first feature was that same speech activities can be taken differently in different contexts. And second, they are culture specific. Argument in one culture is conflict. Argument that is understood as argument in one culture may be conflict in some other culture. Democracy, for example, if you are part of a democratic setup and culture or country, that would favor argument. But if you are part of monarchy, where monarchs are king's rule, no democracy, to their conflict of talk. Agreement is taken as conflict of talk. In democracies argument is liked. Difference of opinion is respected, welcomed. So this is how same speech activity becomes different in cultures. Even same talk may be classified differently. Professionals talk about business. It is shop talk. And if someone reveals private information, this talk is called gossip. Now in both cases, we are doing private talk. But if men do it, we classify it as shop talk. Shop refers to business, serious talk, business talk. And gossip, this is also done in private in absence of some other person. We talk about that person and we reveal something that may damage reputation of that person. So if the same activity is done by women, it would be called gossip. Because usually men think when women sit separate and they talk, they are damaging reputation, honor of the men. If so, every community will organize talk according to its perception. This classification of talk is based on gender ideology. Now see, when you say that men do shop talk, you think that men always talk serious things. Their topics are business, in politics and other such serious things. And this is our perception, our ideology, that we think that women never talk about serious issues. Whenever they are together, their husband and topics like that, which relate with personal relations, they are doing that. These things are gossip. So how we classify the same speech activity, it depends on our ideology. And if we are doing this on the basis of gender, it means we are classifying these things on the basis of gender ideology. So we conclude on the basis of this, that speech activities are organized on the basis of our gender ideology.