Cardoso Daniel
CICANT, Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
FCSH, NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Open Res Eur. 2024 Aug 5;4:167. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.17502.1. eCollection 2024.
In this essay, I focus on the politics and impacts of naming, especially in the social and human sciences, and more specifically on studies that focus on subordinated or discriminated groups. Through this essay, I argue that naming conventions are some of the most important - and dangerous - tools and acts that researchers have at their disposal and, thus, should be employed with the utmost care. Considering the ongoing discussions - both inside and outside of academia - around the terms "consensual non-monogamies" and "ethical non-monogamies", this essay proposes a novel solution to help create less morally-slanted, and overreaching, hypernyms, or umbrella terms. Here, I provide a rationale for using "explicitness" as a fundamental concept on which to build new classificatory hypernymic terminology. The terminology proposed is equally applicable (and applied) to both monogamies and non-monogamies, and is tripartite: Explicit, Implicit, and Covert. In addition to the terminological proposal, I include in this essay a series of intended limitations and constraints to its usage, its interoperability with other systems, objections to (and responses to) the usage of this system, and advantages of this novel classificatory system, as well as an outline of how this proposal might be improved upon.
在本文中，我聚焦于命名的政治因素及其影响，尤其是在社会科学和人文科学领域，更具体地说是关注那些以从属或受歧视群体为研究对象的研究。通过本文，我认为命名惯例是研究人员可利用的一些最重要且最危险的工具和行为，因此，使用时应极其谨慎。鉴于学术界内外围绕“双方自愿的非一夫一妻制”和“符合伦理的非一夫一妻制”这些术语正在进行的讨论，本文提出了一种新颖的解决方案，以帮助创造出道德倾向较弱、范围较适度的上位词或统称术语。在此，我阐述了将“明确性”作为构建新的分类上位术语的基本概念的理由。所提议的术语同样适用于（并应用于）一夫一妻制和非一夫一妻制，且分为三类：明确的、隐含的和隐蔽的。除了术语提议外，我在本文中还列出了其使用的一系列预期限制和约束条件、它与其他系统的互操作性、对该系统使用的反对意见（及回应）、这个新颖分类系统的优点，以及该提议如何可能得到改进的概述。
