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Even though in English-speaking cultural contexts a humorous reaction to teasing seems to be highly valued, jocularity can and does sometimes occasion  evaluations of impoliteness. This paper aims to examine what makes the targets and/or other ratified hearers (the third party) evaluate teasing as impolite and  to observe how impoliteness (as an evaluative situated phenomenon) functions in jocular interactions in two cultural contexts – Australian and British. The data  comes from two national versions of the same reality gameshow –  Big Brother  Australia 2012 and  Big Brother  UK 2012. The  results from both data sets reveal that teasing is often negatively evaluated when it is meant to amuse the hearers at the target’s expense or it is delivered in a  non-affectionate way. Furthermore, some cultural differences have been noticed. While British housemates do not particularly appreciate jocular comments that  target some personal characteristics or one’s personal items (i.e. seen as a personal attack), Australians tend to label jocular verbal behaviour as inappropriate  when it is used to exclude the target or when it disrupts social harmony in general.

What makes teasing impolite in Australian and British English? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”