BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION

BY JIBIN MATHEWSRIKANTHANAND KUBERANVIJAY RAMAKRISHNAN

What is a Barrier?The barrier interrupt the flow of communication from the sender to the receiver, thus making communication ineffective.

CommunicationCommunication is a process beginning with a sender who encodes the message & passes it through some channel to the receiver who decodes the message

BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATION

Barriers to communication are defined as, “aspects of or conditions….. that interfere with effective exchange of ideas or thoughts.” Barriers to communication can be anything that distorts or prevents a message from being properly sent or received.

TYPES OF BARRIERS

Wrong Choice

of Medium

Physical Barrier

Semantic

Barrier

Different

comprehension

s of reality

Socio-Psychological

Barriers

Wrong Choice of Medium

Each communication must be transmitted through an appropriated medium.

We have variety of medium to choose.

Properly chosen media.Unsuitable medium may act

barrier to communication

Physical Barrier

Noise.Time &

Distance.

Physical Barriers consist of any sound that prevents a

person from being heard. Physical noise interferes with a

speaker's ability to send messages and with an audience's

ability to receive them.

SEMANTIC BARRIER

Interpretation of wordsBy passed instructionDenotation & connotations

Misunderstandings that occur by people trying to communicate an idea, but simultaneously

having completely different meanings in mind for the words.

DIFFERENT COMPREHENSIONS OF REALITY

Reality of an object, an event, or a person is different to different people.

Its not a fixed concept, they complex infinite & continuously change .

Abstracting

Slanting

Inferring

SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL

BARRIERS

ATTITUDE & OPINIONS

EMOTION

CONFLICTING GOALS

FRAME OF REFERENCE SOURCE OF

COMMUNICATION

CULTURE DIVERSITY

CLOSE MIND

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