Communication

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to seek information, to give information or to express emotions.

This broad definition includes body-language, skills of speaking and writing. It outlines the objectives of communication. It emphasizes listening as an important aspect of communication.

BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

The barriers to communication and the ways and means of over coming them to achieve effective communication.

* Barriers to communication result in undesirable reaction and unfavourable response.

* The communication exercise fails because the feed back is absent or falls short of expectation

* Barriers to communication are caused by environmental, physical, semantic, attitudinal and varying perceptions of reality

I. Environmental and Physical barriers:

(a) Time - adopt appropriate fast channels of communication

(b) Space - maintain the distance in the communication exercise as determined by the situation

(c) Place - Avoid overcrowded incommodious and ...

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and mass communication. And the point of difference between interpersonal and mass communication is the feedback. In interpersonal, the feedback is direct and fast. In the mass, the feedback is indirect and slow.

Westely and Maclean realized that communication does not begin when one person starts to talk, but rather when a person responds selectively to his/her physical surroundings. This model considers a strong relation between responds from surroundings and the process of communication. Communication begins only when a person receives message from surroundings. Each receiver responds to the message they received based on their object of orientation.

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