The Application of Politeness Principle by the Central Characters with Bipolar Disorder in the Series Spinning Out (2020)

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Abstract: This research aims to identify and analyze the utterances  of the central characters that have bipolar disorder when applying politeness principle. The utterances of the central characters looks into the types of illocutionary, its function. This research uses a qualitative approach and descriptive method. This research uses Geoffrey Leech theory. This research examines only six out of ten epiosodes of the Spinning Out (2020) series which are 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8. There are 17 dialogues that shows politeness principle in this reasearch, 10 dialogues are violate the maxim of politeness and 7 dialogues are obey the maxim of politeness. The results of the research shows that in series Spinning Out (2020) the central characters tend to violate the politeness principle in manic phase and tend to obey the politeness principle in euthymic.