Barriers of Communication

There are three different types of barriers that we categories communication barriers in one is the

(1) Technical or the Physical Barrier, (2) Language Barrier, and (3) Psychological Barrier.

(1) Technical Barrier:- It could be due to disruption of the message due to something, for example- your optical fibre got disconnected or it broke so your internet connectivity is not around or not present, that is an example of a technical barrier.

(2) Language Barrier: – That language between two people is not common, it will be difficult to communicate between the two of them. So, the language barrier is another type.

(3) Psychological Barrier: – It is another kind of barrier just to give an example, if one does not agree with our personality who is speaking there are great chances that one might not adopt or accept the ideas that speaker has given to the audience, so we will deal with them in detail now.

∆✓ Categories of Technical Barrier
(1) Message Distortion
(2) Wrong Timing
(3) Information Overload.

~[1] Message Distortion:- Distortion is any change unintended change in message that occurs which changes the meaning of the message which has to reach the receiver, so this is called distortion of message, this is also called noise, so noise is any kind of message distortion which leads to the fact that the communication, the way it was designed and intended is not being made the same manner.

~[2] Wrong Timing:- It is important to understand that receivers or the target audiences have a certain best time when they would like to understand or take your information and act upon it, all timing is not the best timing.
For example – if a child is tired after five hours of study you cannot make him or her study anymore, the attention span the grasping power the focus will all affected.

~[3] Information Overload: – Too much communication takes.

place simultaneously to the extent that one is overwhelmed and cannot process and handle it simultaneously.

∆✓ Categories of Language Barrier
(1) Vocabulary
(2) Semantics

~[1] Vocabulary:- Vocabulary should be simple when we are trying to communicate and get an idea across.

~[2] Semantics:- The word semantics means meaning, when you talk about meaning, what you are trying to convey should be as clear as you intended to be, because in case you mean something else and you say something else it is not guaranteed that the receiver will be able to understand it in the same way as you thought he would.

∆✓ Categories of Psychological Barrier.

(1) Noise
(2) Perception set differences
(3) Distrust
(4) Information filtering.

~[1] Noise: – Noise can be psychological as well as technical when that your radio channel is not catching the correct frequency, it is a technical barrier, because it is not allowing you to listen grasp focus on the necessary message.

~[2] Perception set differences:- Perception set is though comprises of that element of the mind which does not readily change, like based on our pre-existing

values and beliefs we start believing a few things to be true and these beliefs build our attitude. So, it is very difficult to change a person’s attitude, and this perception set of say for example, somebody likes the color red due to a few reasons and another may not like the color red and may have their own reasons for that. So, this perception set will always differ so one thing is acceptable to one person may not be acceptable to another.

~[3] Distrust: – When the receiver doesn’t trust the source or there is a jealousy factor or there are such other human emotions factor.

~[4] Information filtering:– All sorts of information is not accepted by every individual, so every individual will filter the information out of all the vast information that is available in the environment and take only those which they find are acceptable to them.

Source: Shikha Rai, IGNOU, Written by Rajat Ranjan. Edited by Sadhana Bhushan.