• Borres, T. H

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• Mantong, F. H.

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• Salon, M. V. S

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This paper attempted to define authorial identity in terms of the use of
referential and discourse markers used by authors of Central Mindanao University
Journal of Science. A total of 73 articles were considered with 135 minimum T-units
which were analyzed using Ivanic’s (1998) concept on authorial identity, Hyland’s
(2002) functions of referential markers, and Fraser’s (1999) concept on discourse
markers and functions. From the analysis, we would like to convey that the writers of
this academic journal are largely leaning towards invisibility as manifested by the
limited, if not repetitive referential markers such as “it”, “this”, “these”, and
“there” which were used either to state a purpose, elaborate an argument, or state
the results or claims. Moreover, the writers of this academic journal manifest
abundance of discourse markers that either show contrasting, collateral, inferential
relationship, and elaborated linguistic, semantic, and pragmatic concepts in
academic writing that function either to relate a segment or argument, to introduce a
clause or a separate message, or to show coherence of ideas and concepts. However,
these discourse markers somehow failed to mark authority of claims or strength in
the arguments, which could be generalized as leaning towards writers’ invisibility.

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