Abstract This article presents a Mental Space model for analyzing linguistic patterns in news narratives. The model was applied in a corpus study categorizing various linguistic markers of viewpoint transfers between the mental spaces that readers must conceptualize while processing news narratives: a Reality Space representing the journalist and reader’s projected here-and-now viewpoint; a News Narrative Space representing the newsworthy events from a there-and-then viewpoint; and an Intermediate Space representing the information of the news actors provided from a temporal viewpoint in-between the newsworthy events and the present. Viewpoint transfers and their markers were examined in a corpus of 100 Dutch crime news narratives published over a period of fifty years. The results reveal clear patterns, which indicate that both linguistic structures and narrative-based as well as genre-based inferences play a role in the processing of news narratives. The results furthermore clarify how these narratives have been gradually crystallizing into a genre over the past decades. These findings elucidate the complex yet fluent process of conceptually moving between mental spaces, thus advancing our understanding of the relation between the linguistic and the cognitive representation of narrative discourse.

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在心理空间中顺利移动：新闻叙事中观点转移的语言模式

摘要本文提出了一种心理空间模型，用于分析新闻叙事中的语言模式。该模型在语料库研究中得到了应用，该研究对读者在处理新闻叙事时必须概念化的心理空间之间的观点转移的各种语言标记进行了分类：代表记者和读者当前和现在的观点的真实空间；一个新闻叙事空间，从那以后的角度代表具有新闻价值的事件；中间空间，代表从新闻事件和当下事件之间的时间观点提供的新闻演员信息。在五十年的时间里，发表了100篇荷兰犯罪新闻叙述，对观点转移及其标记进行了研究。结果显示出清晰的图案，这表明语言结构和基于叙事以及基于体裁的推理都在新闻叙事的处理中发挥作用。结果进一步阐明了这些叙述在过去几十年中是如何逐渐形成的。这些发现阐明了概念上在心理空间之间移动的复杂而流畅的过程，从而增进了我们对叙事话语的语言和认知表征之间关系的理解。