ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a gaze, proceeding from the simple idea that planning, traditional, rationalist planning as well as participatory planning, is a discursive practice, realised largely by the production and reception of linguistic and other semiotic texts. Participatory planning can be seen as a kind of 'cross-cultural meta-practice' involving the ergogenetic negotiation of cultural norms and orders of discourse as well as of substantive issues. The 'communicative turn' in planning theory follows the 'linguistic turn' in philosophy and other humanities/social science disciplines. In parallel to this communicative/linguistic turn, there has been a 'social turn' in the discipline of linguistics: a growing interest in social aspects of language. The tension between monoglossic and heteroglossic ergogenesis is a key issue in participatory planning. The metaprocesses by which different forms of knowledge, rela.
