The Development of Gender Term System: Performative Function

Abstract

The fact that the world linguistics deals with anthropocentric paradigm urges the study of the issues related to gender terminology standardization and gender discourse implementation. In this regard, challenging the principles of traditional terminology and translation, testing the perspective relevance of cognitive semantics to demonstrate a language potential in the world conceptualization and categorization through gender discourse lens, revealing linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in the formation of a gender terminology system is of high importance. The article deals with linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in the formation of gender term system - as a cognitive structure providing an effective communication on human rights discourse. The performative function of gender terms, their oriented feature – from words to the actions has been substantiated on the examples of official documents.