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

TOWARDS AN INDEX OF IDIOLECTAL SIMILITUDE 501

III. THE STUDY

A. Main Objectives

This article presents a study that explores and develops the
possibility of measuring the linguistic differences existing
between idiolectal styles and each individual’s idiolectal
similitude or distance, with the aim of establishing an IIS which
will compare several linguistic samples and calculate the
linguistic distance between them. The main objective of the
establishment of the IIS is to a) create a technique that allows
researchers to compare several linguistic samples in terms of the
variables that the protocol contemplates, b) calculate the
linguistic similitude or distance between them, and c) determine
what kind of idiolectal similitude is needed in order to say as
definitively as possible that two linguistic samples have been

Figure 1: Representation of the IIS as a continuum