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The importance of its social impact determined the inclusion of the two generic scenes in our sample. IV. S cenography: T he S tudy of Q uotations Since the object of our analysis is the study of the aphorization, the question of the generic scene remains in the background. Scenography takes relevance in the enunciative act as it is in the text where creativity will reflect. The texts in the sample are different, but they all contain secondary aphorizations. Moreover, due to their nature, the quotes, in this case, are usually short and fit well with the format of the Twitter social platform, where posts are often limited to brief comments, aphorisms, or catchy phrases. Quotations also respond to the strategy often used in political speeches to using aphorisms or slogans. These types of phrases aim to have an impact on the audience, as they tend to stick in the memory. Moreover, they are usually reproduced in the media and repeated by other politicians, so they become part of the encyclopedic knowledge of the community. Regarding citations, the locutor frequently picks them because of the author's prestige or hierarchical position in a political, historical, ethical, or moral perspective. The community perceives them as referents, sages, or leaders. In summary, aphorizations are a polyphonic and transtextual device in which the locutor introduces a third enunciator who brings in a concrete POV that usually coincides with the locutor's POV, as is the case with the quotations studied in this paper. Therefore, the locutor capitalizes on the social image and symbolic charge of the author-enunciator of the quote to enhance his position and create a particular discursive ethos . V. R esults Next, we will comment on the results and illustrate them with a sample of 27 numbered examples. Our corpus consists of 88 quotations relevant to our study, reflecting on their use to convey ideology. Among these, we would like to highlight a case of “surassertio n 10 10 Notion introduced at Ci-Dit colloquium in Cadiz (2004) and developed in Citation et surassertion, Polifonia , Cuiabà (Brésil), n° 8, 2004, 1-22. « Un fragment surasserté constitue un énoncé: - relativement bref, de structure prégnante dans son signifié et/ou son signifiant ; - susceptible d'être décontextualisé (il s'agit souvent d'énoncés génériques) ; - en position saillante dans un texte ou une partie de texte ; - dont la thématique doit être en relation avec l'enjeu essentiel du genre de discours, du texte ou de la partie de texte concernés : il s'agit d'une prise de position dans un conflit de valeurs; - qui implique une sorte d'amplification de l'énonciateur, liée à un ethos qui marque un engagement subjectif dont la modalité varie avec le type de discours concerné. » (Maingueneau 2004) ” (Maingueneau 2004) in an address by the locutor (1), which will later become part of the citations published on Twitter by the same author- locutor. With this quote, the author underlines the illegality of the Electoral Board's intervention in the proceedings of the parliament and the removal of an elected President. (1) «Però l'estat espanyol ha de saber que els Presidents els nomena i els cessa el Parlament. És a dir, els únics representants legítims de la ciutadania. I no permetré, ni acceptaré, que un tribunal i encara menys una junta política suplanti la sobirania dels catalans.» (Institutional New Year's message, 30.12.2019). (2) «Els Presidents de Catalunya els nomena i els cessa el Parlament. No permetré, ni acceptaré, que un tribunal -i encara menys una Junta política- suplanti la sobirania dels catalans.» (Tweet 31.12.2019) That is the only case we have noted in the entire analysis. As a rule, the locutor does not quote himself but prefers quoting other authors. As Maingueneau suggests, the locutor anticipates the transition to a citation for a concrete text sequence by overemphasizing it within a text, signaling its potential prominence (strong or weak). The quote (2) referenced above comes from a text produced by the locutor. It can be defined as “strong detachment” due to the proximity, in this case temporal, between the aphorization and the original textual source. According to Maingueneau (2013:103), its use marks a specific POV about a controversial subject involving a particular ethos that highlights the figure of the enunciator, in this case, the locutor- enunciator. On this occasion, the controversy is the disqualification of the President by an Electoral Board (JEC, for its acronym in Spanish), a state administrative body 11 . Next, we will reflect on the relationship between aphorizations, ideology, and emotions. As might be expected, the remaining quotations come from different authors. After consulting their biographies, we have decided to classify them into three groups based on authorship. Nevertheless, some authors can belong to more than one group (Pau Casals and Eugeni Xammar, among others). Note that we have used the following code to ease interpretation: 11 The functions of the Electoral Board (JEC) are to monitor the electoral process, under no circumstances can it intervene in the course of parliamentary action after the electoral process has been concluded to alter the results. Parliament members can only be dismissed by a ruling of a competent legal court and by firm resolution. 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