This article is the editors’ introduction to the transcript of a lecture that Harold Garfinkel delivered to a seminar in 1993. Garfinkel extensively discusses the relevance of Aron Gurwitsch’s phenomenological treatment of Gestalt theory for ethnomethodology. Garfinkel uses the term “misreading” to signal a respecification of Gurwitsch’s phenomenological investigations, and particularly his conceptions of contextures, functional significations, and phenomenal fields, so that they become compatible with detailed observations and descriptions of social actions and interactions performed in situ. Garfinkel begins with Gurwitsch’s demonstrations with line drawings and other abstract examples, and suggests how they can be used to suggest original procedures for investigating the vicissitudes of embodied practical actions in the lifeworld. This introduction to the lecture aims to provide some background on the scope of Gurwitsch’s phenomenological critique and elaboration of Gestalt theory and Garfinkel’s “misreading” of it in terms of his own conceptions of indexicality and accountability, and ethnomethodological investigations of the production of social order.

本文是编者对Harold Garfinkel于1993年在研讨会上发表的一次演讲的记录的介绍。Garfinkel广泛讨论了Aron Gurwitsch的格式塔现象学方法学对民族方法论的相关性。Garfinkel使用“误读”一词来表示对Gurwitsch现象学研究，特别是他对情境，功能含义和现象领域的概念的重新界定，从而使它们与对社会行为和就地进行的互动的详细观察和描述兼容。Garfinkel从Gurwitsch的线条画和其他抽象示例的演示开始，并建议如何使用它们来提出原始方法，以调查生活世界中具体实践行为的变迁。