本文旨在探討新聞報導如何呈現時間觀念。論者嘗謂新聞乃時間 產物，但是相關研究過去甚少觸及新聞報導中的時間概念，使得我們 對新聞與時間的互動關係瞭解甚少，無從得知新聞是否反映眞實事件 的時間歷程，以及如何使用語彙反映時間變動。 本研究首先藉由過去對時間的討論，探知時間理論大致可分爲主 觀與客觀兩個觀點：前者（主觀觀點）認爲時間乃個人之感知，具有 可操作與可逆轉的特性；如電影製作人處理劇本的手法就經常改變了 原始事件的時間流向。持時間客觀觀點者則認爲時間持續前進，無從 回頭。人們既不能改變時間，也不能分隔時間；如電視新聞現場轉播 即爲一例。 本研究以兩則新聞個案爲例，探討文本中的時間詞彙。我們藉由 過去分析新聞言説論述的經驗，將兩則新聞中的時間詞彙挑選出來， 討論這些時間詞彙在新聞段落中的次序安排、出現頻數、以及分佈狀 態° 本研究發現，新聞報導顯然是一個充滿時間性語彙的論域，從名詞到動詞均與時間概念有關。但在這兩則個案中所出現的時間性語彙 顯著不同：個案一涉及的人與事較多，本質上較爲複雜，因而使用的 時間性詞彙較爲廣泛、和緩。個案二爲事件導向的新聞報導（車禍事 件），因而出現了大量較具急迫性的動詞與副詞。此外，兩則個案在 段落安排與時間分佈上也呈現迥異型態。 由分析結果來看，時間概念可能在新聞報導中扮演了重要角色： 一方面時間是新聞媒介「再現」眞實的工具，因而新聞工作者必須使 用時間性語彙協助讀者建立閲讀的時空背景。但另一方面，時間性語 彙也是符號眞實中的骨幹，是新聞故事的主體，協助新聞文本發展情 節。本研究因此建議，未來應繼續針對時間概念探討新聞工作者如何 面對相同事件使用不同時間語詞，以達成再現眞實的目的。專家型的 新聞工作者與生手記者是否對再現眞實的時間演變有不同的處理方式 ?讀者究竟如何處理新聞報導中的不同時間型態？是否能善於接收這 些時間型態？研究者尤應關心如何藉由討論新聞文本中的時間性語詞 ，增進新聞工作與讀者間的互動關係，改善閲讀效果。

There has been a plethora of research literature on the subject of time and society, ranging from works by Kar Marx to those by Anthony Giddens. But few efforts have attempted to study the temporality in news text, or how the concept of time was reflected in news text. In this paper, we try to analyze temporal terms appearing in two randomly selected news stories. First, two categories were generalized by following the past theoretical suggestions. Time was considered either as a subjective term, with a special feature of reversibility as often adopted in movie shooting, or as an objective perspective which can hardly be separated from people’s experience and has to move words and sentences, and thus was strictly reflecting a short period of temporality. The study then concludes that time terms have dual functions in news reports. For one, they are the tools of representation for readers, only through which the feeling of context can be built. Second, these terms are the backbone of news narrative and the use of them help the journalist develop the news story .We then suggest to further study on the subject since it may explain the types of news writing and how the reality is "represented" by the journalist. This issue is certainly important because we need to learn more about whether and how the different use of time terms may influence the plot developed in different news stories. And knowing how the reader, on the other hand, receives these different news terms may also help us understand more about their perception of news reality.sequentially from one end to another. Then we pick out all the terms relating to time in these two news articles. Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions were all analyzed to count their frequencies in each^pa^agraph as well as in each news article, with a purpose to show how these terms were distributed and in what order. The result shows, when it’s obvious that news reports are full of terms with time implications, the two case stories reflect two rather opposite types. In the first case, which was about an announcement of new medical policy in Taiwan, time terms was adopted to cover a broader length of temporality, and therefore present a comparatively complicated news narration. And the second case, which was about a train crash against a gravel truck, includes many event-oriented words and sentences, and thus was strictly reflecting a short period of temporality. The study then concludes that time terms have dual functions in news reports. For one, they are the tools of representation for readers, only through which the feeling of context can be built. Second, these terms are the backbone of news narrative and the use of them help the journalist develop the news story .We then suggest to further study on the subject since it may explain the types of news writing and how the reality is "represented" by the journalist. This issue is certainly important because we need to learn more about whether and how the different use of time terms may influence the plot developed in different news stories. And knowing how the reader, on the other hand, receives these different news terms may also help us understand more about their perception of news reality.