People in the world are not exactly alike. Cultures or countries are not the same. These differences, however, can cause problems in conveying your meanings. Each person’s mind is different from others. As a result, message sender’s meanings and the receiver’s response are affected by many factors, such as the following:
a. Semantic barriers(Convention of meaning)
b. Physical Barrier
c. Psychological barriers
• Emotional barriers
• Perceptual barriers
d. Barriers involving values attitudes etc
i) Semantic Barrier (Convention of meaning)
A basic principle of communication is that the symbols the sender uses to communicate messages must have the same meaning in both the sender’s and receiver’s minds. You can never be sure that the message in your mind will be clearly sent to your receiver. The world is full with errors, as a result of differences in semantic (meaning) understanding. A symbol is a sign for something that exits in reality. Thus your name is really a symbol or a word which represents you. Only through common experience we learn, in a connection made between the symbol or the word attached to you and the person you are in reality .Anyone with less common experience will not easily relate the symbol (your name) with you. Besides, there are problems in convention of meaning, so you must make yourself familiar with different types of meaning.
a. Semantic barriers(Convention of meaning)
b. Physical Barrier
c. Psychological barriers
• Emotional barriers
• Perceptual barriers
d. Barriers involving values attitudes etc
i) Semantic Barrier (Convention of meaning)
A basic principle of communication is that the symbols the sender uses to communicate messages must have the same meaning in both the sender’s and receiver’s minds. You can never be sure that the message in your mind will be clearly sent to your receiver. The world is full with errors, as a result of differences in semantic (meaning) understanding. A symbol is a sign for something that exits in reality. Thus your name is really a symbol or a word which represents you. Only through common experience we learn, in a connection made between the symbol or the word attached to you and the person you are in reality .Anyone with less common experience will not easily relate the symbol (your name) with you. Besides, there are problems in convention of meaning, so you must make yourself familiar with different types of meaning.
