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Traversing obstacles of communication

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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 ...

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Traversing obstacles of communication

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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