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In discourse analysis studies, there is great interest in determining how writers construct their own voice in their texts. In this sense, the objective of this research is to describe the degree of positioning of writers in their texts and their commitment to the facts expressed, as well as how they manage to make this visible through various linguistic and discursive resources. This research is based on the study of a corpus composed of five opinion columns from the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá, published on August 8, 2024. Benveniste's (1970) theory of enunciation and the contributions of Hyland (2005) and Castelló et al. (2011) are relevant theoretical foundations for this study. This qualitative research begins by identifying linguistic units in their context to establish their function as modalizing resources according to Hyland's (2005) postulates: mitigators and emphasizers. The results show the presence of a variety of modalizing resources, which corroborates the idea that the speaker's voice is reflected in the discourse when they take ownership of and engage with the ideas expressed.
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