Advancing (Im)Politeness Studies: Cultural, Digital and Emotional Aspects

Chaoqun Xie is a chair professor and director of Institute of Discourse Pragmatics at Zhejiang International Studies University, China. Internet pragmatics and (im)politeness are his current primary scholarly interests. His recent publications include (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions (John Benjamins, 2020), Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and Practice (co-edited with Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland, John Benjamins, 2021), The Philosophy of (Im)politeness (Springer, 2021), The Pragmatics of Internet Memes (John Benjamins, 2022), and Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts (co-edited with Ying Tong, Springer, 2022).