【正确答案】The I-principle is one of the tripartite model, which was suggested by Levinson mainly in his 1987 paper "Pragmatics and the Grammar of Anaphor: A Partial Pragmatic Reduction of Binding and Control Phenomena". In essence, Levinson says, the Q-, I- and M-principles are Grice's two maxims of Quantity and a maxim of Manner reinterpreted neo-classically.
The I-principle is the Speaker's Maxim: the Maxim of Minimization. "Say as little as necessary", i.e. produce the minimal linguistic information sufficient to achieve your communicational ends (bearing the Q-principle in mind).

【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查语言学家Levinson提出的信息原则的概念，考生应能灵活掌握Q-principle和M-principle的概念。