THE INTEGRATION OF BANKING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE NEED FOR REGULATORY REFORM

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issue may not be raised in the press, but I thought I
would let you know just in case.
To summarize: six central vocabulary choices made by the
author of the questioned email occur in other emails on the same
topic written by Shuy and three of them also occur in both the
Goggin notes of the telephone conversation and in Caldas’s
notes. By contrast, there are no examples of Goggin making any
of these vocabulary choices in his emails at this time.

Words and

Phrases

Goggin

emails

Goggin

Notes

Question-

ed email

Widdowson

Guardian

emails

Caldas

notes

attack NO YES YES YES YES

Recognise(d)

+ revenue

NO YES YES YES YES

Disgruntled

+

employee(s)

NO YES YES YES YES

Peddle +

rumour(s)

NO NO YES YES NO

fully

expensed

NO NO YES YES NO

Strictly

private

and

confidential

NO NO YES YES NO

Table 5: Comparison of Occurrences of Six Crucial Linguistic Encodings

2. Finding Regarding Others
   as Candidate Authors

Significant lexical choices in the questioned email are
consistent with choices Widdowson makes elsewhere,
particularly in emails about the problem with the Guardian
journalist. In addition, these coselections do not occur in emails
sent by anyone else and so are distinctive.