Abstract This study examines the linguistic construal and cognitive representation of time and viewpoint in the genre of news narratives. We present a model of mental spaces that involves a News Space in which the deictic center is construed of the news actors at the time the newsworthy events took place, and a Reality Space in which the deictic here-and-now center of journalist and reader is construed. This model explains how the dynamic representation of narrative news discourse, characterized by shifts in time and viewpoint, is steered by linguistic devices. An analysis of Dutch news narratives shows that temporal adverbs such as yesterday and shifts from present tense to past tense may signal a move forward in narrative time, to a viewpoint in the future relative to the narrative now-point, rather than backward. These atypical time shifts can be accounted for by presupposing an Intermediate Space located at a point in time between the News Space and the Reality Space where the progression of narrative time comes to a halt and experiences are rather relived than reported. The salience of the Intermediate Space may be signaled by quotative conditionals reflecting the viewpoints of implicitly quoted sources. These results clarify how tense and temporal deixis steer the linguistic construal of time and viewpoint in news narratives, demonstrating that time and viewpoint are closely linked in the cognitive representation of these narratives.

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穿越叙事时间：时态和时态代数如何指导新闻叙事中的时间和观点表示

摘要本文研究了新闻叙事类型中时间和观点的语言建构和认知表征。我们提供了一个心理空间模型，其中包括一个新闻空间和一个现实空间，在新闻空间中，具有新闻价值的事件发生时，新闻中心由新闻演员构成；在现实空间中，新闻记者和读者的时至今日中心被解释。该模型说明了语言手段如何引导叙事新闻语篇的动态表示，其以时间和观点的变化为特征。对荷兰新闻叙事的分析表明，时态副词（例如昨天）和从现在时到过去时的转变可能标志着叙事时间的前进，是相对于叙事现在点的未来观点，而不是后退。这些非典型的时移可以通过以下方式来解决：在新闻空间和现实空间之间的某个时间点设置一个中间空间，在该空间中，叙事时间的进程停止了，体验得到了重现而不是报道。中间空间的显着性可以通过反映隐含引用来源观点的定性条件来表示。这些结果阐明了时态和时态指示如何引导新闻叙事中的时间和观点的语言解释，表明时间和观点在这些叙事的认知表示中紧密相关。