Aspectos éticos em representação do conhecimento em temáticas relativas à homossexualidade masculina: uma análise da precisão em linguagens de indexação brasileiras

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Pinho, Fábio Assis [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Representação do conhecimento (Teoria da informação); Metafora; Figuras de linguagem; Tratamento temático da informação; Ética informacional; Eufemismo; Linguagens de indexação brasileiras; Knowledge representation; Information ethics; Precision; Metaphor; Euphemism
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103379

The studies on ethics in Knowledge Organization and Representation, especially in the Subject Approach to Information, have collaborated to establish the theoretical and methodological aspects of Information Science which are justified by the assumption of social inclusion, as a metavalue, it situated itself between social prejudice and proselytize, creating a situation where three axiological universes coexist: the document or information, the user and the librarian. Therefore, the indexing is linked to an ethical dimension because it must concern itself with its reliability and usefulness in certain discourse communities or specific domains. In this direction, it is proposed through an exploratory and documental research with qualitative and inductive characteristics to identify the maximum specific terminological that Brazilian indexing languages allow for terms relating to male homosexuality, analyzing like investigative corpus the terms assigned to papers published in the Journal of Homosexuality, Sexualities and Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, between the years 2005 to 2009. From confrontation and analysis of terms and the Brazilian indexing languages there is an approximation of meaning in the Brazilian context, imprecision in the terminology, with indications of prejudices disseminate by ‘politically correct’, the biased representation of the thematic and the presence of figures of speech