The paper presents an empirical analysis of the tools writers use to verbalize their stances in academic discourse based on a corpus of 40 research articles in the fields of Humanities. The paper distinguishes between three stances of writers in academic discourse which are verbalized with a number of linguistic tools: the researcher, the opinion holder, and the representative. The paper also aims to examine the cultural conditions as well as the role of writer’s research experience in markers’ preferences. The paper describes a study in which frequency and usage of linguistic tools marking writer’s stances were compared between papers written in English and in Russian. It was found that Russian authors preferred first person plural pronouns, the third person and agentless passives while English language writers used both first person singular and plural, agentless constructions, third person with human reference, and personified point of view constructions.