1. BARRIERS TO COMMUNICATIONBY
JIBIN MATHEW
SRIKANTH
ANAND KUBERAN
VIJAY RAMAKRISHNAN

2. Communication What is a Barrier? The barrier interrupt the flow of
communication from the sender to
the receiver, thus making communication
ineffective.
Communication
Communication is a process beginning with
a sender who encodes the message & passes
it through some channel to the receiver who decodes the message

3. 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.

4. TYPES OF BARRIERS Semantic Barrier Wrong Choice of Medium
Physical Barrier
Semantic Barrier
Different comprehensions of reality
Socio-Psychological Barriers

5. 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

6. 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.
Noise.
Time & Distance.

7. SEMANTIC BARRIER
Misunderstandings that occur by people trying to communicate an idea, but simultaneously having completely different meanings in mind for the words.
Interpretation of words
By passed instruction
Denotation & connotations

8. 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

9. SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS
EMOTION
ATTITUDE & OPINIONS
CULTURE DIVERSITY
SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS
CONFLICTING GOALS
CLOSE MIND
FRAME OF REFERENCE
SOURCE OF COMMUNICATION

10. VIDEO

11. Questions?
Questions?
Questions?