For our final interview in the Legend Series, we are joined by Rupeshika Gunawardana from Kelaniya University. The backstory to this interview technically began with me writing a paper in 2013, believing I could explain the diaspora of English in socioeconomic terms - this paper became “The Global Model of English” discussed in interview #2 of the podcast. This paper came to the attention of a linguistics professor in Sri Lanka, who set their students the task of investigatin