About Lesson
Schramm’s model of communication:
- According to Wilbur Schramm, communication can be seen as processes of information transmission governed by three levels of semantic rules:
- Syntactic (formal properties of signs and symbols),
- Pragmatic (concerned with the relations between signs/expressions and their users) and
- Semantic (study of relationships between signs and symbols and what they represent).
- Therefore, communication is social interaction where at least two interacting agents share a common set of signs and a common set of semiotic rules.
- Schramm explained that understanding to take place between the communicator and the destination, they must have something in common. If the source’s and destination’s field of experiences overlap, communication takes place. If there is no overlap communication is