文本世界理论作为认知语言学的一个理论模式目前尚处于完善阶段。本文分析比较了其两种典型的理论模式,即Werth的文本世界理论与Gavins的文本世界理论,发现二者使用的界定标准均有语焉不详之处。通过对文本世界界定标准的进一步探讨,本文用例证说明,文本世界并非叙述者的空间或是人物的内心空间,而是文本中的人物采取行动、进行思考的空间。 As a theoretical model of cognitive linguistics, the textual world theory is still in its perfection stage. This paper analyzes and compares two typical theoretical models, that is, Werth’s textual world theory and Gavins’ textual world theory, and finds that there is no clear definition of the standard used by both. Through the further discussion of the definition of the text world, this article shows that the text world is not the narrator’s space or the inner space of the characters, but the space in which the characters in the text act and think.