Different societies in the world have evolved with different languages and other elements of communication. According to Leavitt & Mueller communication is the process of exchanging information or imparting ideas and feelings. Communication is divided into two main categories: verbal and nonverbal ...
Different societies in the world have evolved with different languages and other elements
of communication. According to Leavitt & Mueller communication is the process of exchanging
information or imparting ideas and feelings. Communication is divided into two main categories:
verbal and nonverbal communication. Verbal communication is the type that involves the use of
sound through the mouth to communicate, while the non-verbal type involves the use of gestures,
body language, atmospherics, facial expressions, and signs to communicate. In a communication
setup there exist barriers that tend to hinder communication, these barriers can be said to be ways
that are specific in nature and tend to limit or prevent communication between people in an
organization or society in general. People have come up with solutions to go about the issue of
existence of communication barriers. Indeed, it is true that communication barriers are real but
also solutions to them exist.
The different forms of communication include writing, speaking, reading and hearing.
There exists difference in ways that people communicate but all in all communication is
important and according to Cronen and Pearce communication builds relations between
communicators. The language that is widely spoken in India is different from the language that is
widely spoken in the United States of America. This is evidence that different languages as a
form of communication do exist in different parts of the world and this can be a major barrier if
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the people communicating can’t speak the same language (Leavitt 405). In countries like
Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and other, local native languages are the primary forms of
verbal communication. Therefore, in circumstances where people from all these backgrounds
need to relate through communications, lack of a common language bars them from doing so.
Likewise writing as a form of communication differs in different parts of the world. Hence a
communication barrier arises since not all people can read certain types of writing. There are
many types of writing and all of them have ways of writing them and reading them. These types
of writing are; Arabic script, which is mostly used in Arabic and Muslim countries like Saudi
Arabia, Qatar and African counties like Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. Countries like Somalia in
the Eastern part of Africa use the Borama script. The Chinese formerly used the Phags-pa script
but to date only countries like Tibet still use it for decorative purposes (Mueller 407). Brail is
another special writing method meant for the blind since it is easier for them to write and read
the brails because the blind are thought to do so. This is a barrier to communicating with the
blind if one doesn’t understand how brail is written (Pearce 85).
Reading is another form of communication and there are barriers that come out of it as
well. People can read different kind of things, this largely depends on whether one can
understand certain kind of writings when they see and read or touch and read for the case of the
blind. If someone doesn’t understand reading certain Witten information, then it becomes a
hindrance to communication. To date all the languages can be written to be read. Different
languages have ways of communicating them and the communication process to be complete
needs the hearing as a form of communication (Habermas 100). Hearing a particular
communication depends on whether one can understand certain language and hence not
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