The idea that there is a gender-specific style of writing has been around for a long time in literary studies. In linguistics there is also a fairly long-standing tradition of talking about women’s language or women’s style, but the focus of this line of research has traditionally been speech rather than writing. So far, empirical studies have focussed on phonological aspects (e.g. Trudgill’s, ...

In the world of linguistics, term “discourse” is often used in many scientific works devoted to study text problems. As V. Hegay rightly points out, although widely linguistics as well fields literature, sociology, political science, philosophy, logic, psychology, itself has a unique, accepted interpretation, meaningless, express variety different concepts.

Digital adaptations of literary works possess an ambiguous status in education. Even though they have been in use several decades, their impact on learning is not sufficiently studied. Apart from lacking technological confidence, educators are skeptical about viewing digital texts as relevant to literary discourse. In their turn, developers are not always interested in fitting the school needs ...