Scripts are the public manifestation of patterns of related social concepts. It codifies the format or concept for a given event. It emphasizes what is relevant, and helps make appropriate inferences. Icons and schemas act like default assumptions that provide use with the essential, quick-reaction strategies for manifesting potential future behavior. They provide a quick and easy way of efficiently responding to threatening outward events.
Icons are the basic rules that govern our nonverbal behavior in our sensory space.
They respond to significant sensory perceptions. They may have no exact counterpart in the real world. Schemas are the unspoken but common understanding of what behavior is suitable for a given social situation, like going to school, the theater, a church service, a symphony concert, or ball game. We may also have restaurant scripts, traffic scripts, and family scripts. The public sharing of such concepts of good, social behavior helps avoid confusion, embarrassment and ill will.