Disable Author Link in Blog Posts

Hi, I’m trying to turn off the link to the author for the blog posts… I found this in the sing.php file:

echo '<span class="blog-author minor-meta">'.__('by','avia_framework')." ";
                    echo '<span class="entry-author-link" '.avia_markup_helper(array('context' => 'author_name','echo'=>false)).'>';
                    echo '<span class="vcard author"><span class="fn">';
                    the_author_posts_link();
                    echo '</span></span>';
                    echo '</span>';
                    echo '</span>';
                echo '</span>';
            echo '</header>';

But if I add // to the lines it takes out both the name and the link. We still want the author name, just not the link. Can you help? Thanks!