The barries to communication and causes to communication breakdown.doc

The barriers to communication and causes to communication breakdown How to overcoming such barriers? Communication barriers Most communications happen between sender(s) and receiver(s), such as in intra-personal and inter-personal communication, and so on. The message is the idea or feeling transmitted from the sender to the receiver to achieve understanding. It builds a connection between sender and receiver. The receiver should be able to recognize its purpose and understand what it is about, then give the feedback to sender. But the message is received necessarily the same message sent. Something other than the intended message is received because noise or interference, interrupts the intended message. These are called communication barriers, which can lead to misunderstanding or to confused or ambiguous communication. So communication barriers occur as a result of a understanding or misinterpretation of the message. Causes of communication barriers Communication barriers can be caused by the sender, the receiver, lack of feedback, a poor choice of channel, and the wrong context or any other elements in the communication model. These are showed with physical, technical, social, psychological, cultural background. Ⅰ.Cultural background: Communicators involved varied cultural backgrounds. Cross-cultural communication barriers can often happen. (ⅰ) Language used: There are many and many kinds of language in the world. In our increasingly multicultural and multilingual society, many persons with different language (or even different dialects) are working together. Furthermore, the communications among the different countries with different language are more and more. It is very easy for misunderstandings to arise under these conditions. Even when skilled translators are used, it is difficult for translators to transmit complex feelings and emotions as clearly as they are originally spoken. Language barriers exist also because words can be