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Abstract
The current thesis presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the Nobel-winning dystopian novel Never Let Me Go (2005), authored by the British-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro. The theoretical framework that has been employed comprises Gavins’ Text World Theory (2007) and Fauconnier’s Mental Space Theory (1997). The study aims to examine the contribution of Text World Theory in highlighting the fragmentation of identity through a cognitive analysis of the multiple worlds, namely the discourse world, the text world, and the modal worlds. Second, it aims to demonstrate the significance of Mental Space Theory in investigating how the multiple mental spaces contribute to highlighting the identity crises by analyzing the construction of mental spaces along with their configuration in terms of connectedness or irrelevance. Finally, it investigates how blending both theories guide the readers to form certain mental representation that triggers empathy and involvement. It can be concluded the readers’ mental representation about the main enactors are affected by the modal worlds created especially the epistemic worlds that transfer the readers into the enactors’ thoughts and feelings. Moreover, the creation of hypothetical mental spaces inside the base spaces highlights the mental escapism of the characters to live in alternative world in which they can find themselves and do what they want. Add to this, boulomaic modality along with mental images of wishes are rarely used which indicates that the students do not have a free will nor the ability to run their lives.