Chaoqun Xie is a professor at the School of English Studies, Zhejiang International Studies University, China. Internet pragmatics and (im)politeness are his current primary scholarly interests. His recent edited volumes include (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions (John Benjamins, 2020), originally published as special issue of Internet Pragmatics 1:2 (2018), and Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and Practice (co-edited with Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland, John Benjamins, 2021).