时空是人类生活中不可或缺的重要组成部分,不同于空间的是,时间并不能被人类直接感知。世界上很多语言的时间概念时常借助空间词汇来表达。莱考夫和约翰逊(1980)提出时空概念隐喻理论,认为时间来自空间映射。近些年,莱文森(1996)提出了空间参考框架(SFoR),由于时间、空间两者紧密的关系,许多学者参照空间参考框架提出了相应的时间参考框架(T-FoR)。本文对现今前沿的时间参考框架理论进行详述与对比,以期为国内相关时间参考框架研究提供一些借鉴。 Space-time is an indispensable part of human life. Unlike space, time can not be directly perceived by human beings. The concept of time in many languages ​​of the world is often expressed in spatial terms. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) put forward the concept of space-time metaphor theory, that time comes from space mapping. In recent years, Levinson (1996) proposed the spatial reference framework (SFoR). Due to the close relationship between time and space, many scholars proposed the corresponding time reference framework (T-FoR) with reference to the spatial reference framework. In this paper, the current frontier theory of time reference frame is described and compared in detail, with a view to providing reference for the research on the related time reference frame in China.