Friday, 16 September 2011

BARRIERS OF COMMUNICATION

The term 'barrier' means 'hurdle' , 'hindrance' ,or 'obstacle'. thus, barriers to communication imply obstacles on the way of transmission of message from the sender to the receiver.

The barriers of communication are given below :

a) Cultural difference or variation:
    Because of linguistic difference or cultural variance the information cannot reach the receiver or is misinterpreted. As a word or symbol with one meaning in one culture may have the other meaning in the other culture resulting to communication failure.

b) Noise:
  Noise is also one of the major barriers of communication. Because of noise the complet information cannot reach the receiver resulting to communication failure.

c) Multiple ways of thinking:
   The thinking pattern of persons also determine the communication competance. A person shares an information with one thought in mind, but the receiver might be on other state of mind which can lead to misinterpretation of the information. Also the preconception about the sender and lack of trust might effect the message. If the sender thought to be bad even a good message from him can be unpleasent to the receiver resulting to communication failure.

d) Steric opinion:
   We tend to have fixed opinion about some beliefs and values which cannot be altered at any cost. And if some information arrives for betterment of us but agnaist older beliefs we totally misinterprate the information. we are so opinionated that we don't see only thing beyond our opinion which also fuels the communication failure, it is especially between two societies with diferent culture.

e) Selection of words:
   Some words at different sentences carries different meaning and some words are thought to be attending at situations. Moreover. there is also specific word for some specified areas. And different words in different writting patterns. Thus, there should be the selection of correct word at the correct time in the correct place for description of correct situation or event lack of which creates communication failure.

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