This article examines how citizens, invited to ask questions in public plenary consultation meetings within a participatory democracy procedure in urban planning in France, point at something that has not been mentioned in the public debate, thereby challenging the recipient. More specifically, this article is interested in studying, deploying the analytical framework offered by Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, a particular French linguistic turn design adopted by the citizens: variations of ‘have you planned X?’. These interrogatives are concerned with an aspect of the procedure the citizens present as relevant, but which has not been mentioned by the professionals. By adopting a turn format that requests confirmation, citizens display caution to not attribute blame overtly to the recipient for this perceived lack. At the same time, these questions make visible how citizens orient to public and political transparency as a social and political standard the recipients are obliged to uphold.

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政治透明度很重要：公民通过“你是否计划过 X”类问题挑战官员

本文探讨了公民如何在法国城市规划的参与式民主程序中被邀请在公共全体咨询会议上提问，指出公共辩论中未提及的问题，从而挑战接受者。更具体地说，本文有兴趣研究和部署由 Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics 提供的分析框架，这是公民采用的一种特殊的法语语言转向设计：“你计划 X 吗？”的变体。这些疑问与公民提出的相关程序的某个方面有关，但专业人士并未提及。通过采用要求确认的回合格式，公民表现出谨慎，不要将这种感知不足的责任公然归咎于接收者。