文摘
The article presents Harold Garfinkel’s notion of misunderstandings and applies it methodologically to the microanalysis of natural situations. To this end, it discusses what Schützian constitution analysis views as the prerequisites in order for misunderstandings to emerge out of both conscious elements and preconscious ones, such as gestures and facial expressions. The author demonstrates that drawing solely on Alfred Schütz’s phenomenology does not suffice for such an investigation. Factoring in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the subjective body, she argues, helps to substantiate in terms of constitutional theory why even preconscious and prelinguistic body movements can be construed as intersubjective. The article also outlines the implications of these findings for video interaction analysis research on conscious and preconscious elements of misunderstandings. Finally, it analyzes the role of body movements in misunderstandings by way of an example.KeywordsSocial TheoryMisunderstandingsBodyVisualityPhenomenologyEthnomethodologyVideo Analysis