Barriers in Communication

May 9, 2011

Barriers in Communication
      We all know that communicating with others plays a very significant role in our daily lives. Communication can be defined in several ways, the dictionary definition of communication is, a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. It requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchange. There are auditory means, such as speaking or singing, and nonverbal, physical means, such as body language, sign language, paralanguage, touch, eye contact, or the use of writing. From this definition, one can tell that every single expression that tries to give information to another is a form of communication.   Nearly every aspect of human life could be improved by better listening, from family matters to corporate business affairs to international relations.
The process of communication requires a vast repertoire of skills in intrapersonal and interpersonal processing, listening, observing, speaking, questioning, analyzing, and evaluating. Use of these processes is developmental and transfers to all areas of life: home, school, community, work and beyond. It is through communication that collaboration and cooperation occur when using poor relationship communication, the relationship will always come to an end eventually, because words have a unique effect in the mind of each person, because each person's experience is unique. Those differences can be small, but the overall effect of the differences can become large enough to cause misunderstanding.

Interpersonal communication plays a larger factor in building and maintaining successful relationships. Studies show that the average person usually speaks around 13,500 words per day; plenty by anyone's standards. However, talking is not the only means of communicating. It has been proclaimed that 93% of communication is nonverbal and only 7% is verbal. That means that if every gesture, expression and tone were vocalized, we would...