Abstract: Temporal information is one of the important dimensions of the situation model in narrative text comprehension, as well as one of the hot topics in current studies. The researchers proved the important role of temporal dimension in the situation model, through different angles, paradigms and technological means, and gained a lot of research results in the domain. This paper reviewed previous researches, and summarized these research results from academic views and empirical researches, meanwhile, made the prospects about future researches and development.

摘要： 情境模型时间维度研究是目前文本阅读研究的热点之一。研究者们从不同角度、采用不同范式和技术手段证明了时间维度在情境模型建构中的重要作用,并且在这方面也取得了大量研究成果。文章从理论观点和实证研究两方面对这些研究成果进行梳理和总结,并对未来研究发展做出了展望。