This paper explores how teasing behaviours assist women in expressing intimacy in daily interactions and therefore create different expectations for gender roles under the Chinese context by analysing 379 instances of jocular teasing taken from a Chinese reality TV show. This study identified five strategies, namely jocular deprecation/self-deprecation, jocular criticism, jocular directives, jocular praise/self-praise, and jocular irony. The results indicate that the women incline to using teasing strategies to discursively index power and masculinity via correcting other's behaviours and main...
