  Sonification research is intrinsically interdisciplinary. Consequently, a
proper documentation of, and interdisciplinary discourse about a sonification
is often hindered by terminology discrepancies between involved disciplines,
i.e., the lack of a common sound terminology in sonification research. Without
a common ground, a researcher from one discipline may have troubles
understanding the implementation and imagining the resulting sound perception
of a sonification, if the sonification is described by a researcher from
another discipline. To find a common ground, I consulted literature on
interdisciplinary research and discourse, identified problems that occur in
sonification, and applied the recommended solutions. As a result, I recommend
considering three aspects of sonification individually, namely 1.) Sound Design
Concept, 2.) Objective and 3.) Method, clarifying which discipline is involved
in which aspect, and sticking to this discipline's terminology. As two
requirements of sonifications are that they are a) reproducible and b)
interpretable, I recommend documenting and discussing every sonification design
once using audio engineering terminology, and once using psychoacoustic
terminology. The appendix provides comprehensive lists of sound terms from both
disciplines, together with relevant literature and a clarification of often
misunderstood and misused terms.
