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their common orientation to the freeze, their laughing at Boy 1’s perform-
ance, their nested F-formation arrangement (Kendon 1990) at the end of
the excerpt documented in the visual transcript above, all contribute to their
identification as a group.
By shouting “replay”, Boy 1 temporarily becomes an object of attention,
and in this way a “performer” whose action is oriented to, though to dif-
ferent degrees. Thus, there exist different participation frameworks between
categories of “performer” and “spectator”, and limits are not given a priori,
they are negotiated. Members can become one or the other, as the categories
are achieved in an emergent and situated way, by the actors’ doings, in a way
that is characteristic ...