This article offers a critically reflective discussion of and suggestions towards the role of embodied cognitive science within theatre and performance discourse. Through a critical analysis of literature that takes its lead from within the framework of embodied cognition, this article argues that theatre and performance discourse may need to re-examine how embodiment is conceptualized within practical and interdisciplinary accounts of cognition. By exploring specific foundations and driving premises of embodied and classic cognition respectively, this article suggests that if researchers are going to use scientific accounts of embodiment to better understand embodied cognition in theatre and performance, then they must, by their own estimations, accept that all research, and not just practice, is an embodied act.

本文对具身认知科学在戏剧和表演话语中的作用进行了批判性反思的讨论和建议。通过在具身认知框架内对文学进行批判性分析，本文认为，戏剧和表演话语可能需要重新审视具身化在认知的实际和跨学科解释中是如何被概念化的。通过分别探索具身认知和经典认知的具体基础和驱动前提，本文建议，如果研究人员要使用具身化的科学解释来更好地理解戏剧和表演中的具身认知，那么他们必须根据自己的估计，接受所有研究，而不仅仅是实践，是一种具体的行为。