The following research supports the idea that terms do play a significant role in the construction of a particular discourse as it defines discourse to be an intellectual ghetto with its own term system and methodology. The study deals with one of the principles of Cognitive Terminology, which claims that Traditional Terminology does not provide proper principles and methods of defining the concepts. In particular, gender terms have been considered, i.e. whether it is possible to define the gender terms intensionally and/or extensionally in comparison with traditional Terminology principles. As compared to traditional Terminology, sociocognitive Terminology has more and different theoretical underpinnings which go hand in hand with other methodological tools for the analysis of categories which occur in textual information. We have shown how the sociocognitive approach in Terminology can borrow methodologies from cognitive semantics for at least the following analysis, which implies the description along historical lines of the development of polysemy. The foregoing has an impact on the practice of the terminographer. The different theoretical basis will give him/her a different conception of what terminography should imply.