Presentation on "Semantic barriers in communication". It helps in understanding the semantic barrier and overcome it. Also helpful for management departments.

1. English

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 Introduction to semantic barrier
 Why barriers occur in communication
 Types of semantic barrier
 Examples of semantic barrier
 Solution to overcome semantic barrier
Context:

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 when a message is sent by a sender to a receiver, it
might be interpreted wrongly in a communication
process causing misunderstandings between them.
This can happen due to different situations that
form the semantic(of, relating to, or arising from the
different meanings of words or other symbols) of the
sender and the receiver, known as the semantic
barrier. It also arises due to language, education,
culture and place of origin (dialect or accent) or most
likely their experiences.
Semantic Barrier

4. Types of Semantic Barriers in Communication
Denotative Barriers
Direct meaning of any word which must be shared by two people to
understand each other is the denotative meaning. The barriers that arise due to
the definition or meaning of a word used differently by sender and receiver is
denotative barriers of communication.
For example, the meaning of braces which is used to define the metallic
structure to adjust teeth in American English whereas it means a part of
clothing in British English.
Connotative Barriers
The implied meaning of a word is known as Connotative meaning.
Connotative barrier in communication refers to the difference of meaning
according to different abstract situations, contexts, actions and feelings. Both
the communicators know both meanings of the word, but use only one
meaning according to the context, which might be being used differently in the
context.
For example, the word god, which is used differently by people following
different religions.

5. Causes of Semantic Barriers in Communication
Homophones, homonyms and homographs
Homophones
Homophones are the words with same pronunciation but different meaning
which might have different spelling too. For example: Words buy, by and bye.
They have same pronunciation, but different meanings and spellings.
Homonyms
Homonyms are the words which have the same pronunciation and their spellings
are mostly same, but the intended meaning is different. For example, the noun
"bear" and the verb "bear" has different meanings but same pronunciation and
spelling.
Homographs
Homographs are the words that have the same spelling but the pronunciation
and meaning are different. For example, "The research lead to the discovery of
lead". In this sentence, both the words have the same spelling, but different
pronunciation and different meanings.
These words can be interpreted wrongly when used unknowingly causing the
semantic barrier in a communication process. This, in turn, makes the
communication ineffective.

6. Body language and gestures
When, what you speak and your body language (kinesics) is different, the listener
can get offended. Inconsistent body language creates conflict. Action and
language must always go together to make people trust you.
Differences in dialects
A person, who speak more than one language can not speak a particular
language they use less in the same way he/she speaks their native language or
mother tongue. People from different parts of the world use different dialects for
the same language and pronounce a word differently. It causes semantic
barrier as meaning of words are different. For example, the dialect of speaking
English by an Australian is different than that of an American. People from
Australia use the word "autumn" whereas Americans use the word "fall".
Filtering by senders and selective perception by receivers
Prejudices of people make them only listen to and interpret the things they want
to. They understand the way they want to. Both, sender & receiver use the words
that serve their interest and objectives. The sender filters before sending and the
receiver perceives selectively which shapes the meaning of the message. The
message must be according to the level of understanding of the receiver and in
the same way filtering before sending must be done to overcome semantic
communication barrier.

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 If I ask a question?
What is the meaning of “table” in urdu or any other
language that you know or your audience knows.
 First you create an image like this in your mind
 Then answer.
What is common
experience

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 If I ask what is the meaning of “Eii” in chinese language?
If you don’t know about chinese language, you may have
faces like this.
 Well the meaning of EII is one (1).
 After reading the meaning, you may have an image of 1
in your mind
 Well this is common experience.
EII?

9. 'run' has 71 meanings as a verb,
35 as a noun,
4 more as an adjective.
If this word occurs in a message, the receiver is at
liberty to interpret it in any of the 110 senses,
but if communication is to be perfect, he must
assign to it he same meaning as existed in the
sender's mind when he used it.

10. What is the meaning of the word 'value'?
What do we exactly mean when we say,
"Radium is a valuable metal"? Do we refer to its utility or its price? Or
both?
Let consider the following six sentences:
(i) What is the value of this ring?
(ii) What is the value of learning about communication?
(iii) I value my good name.
(i v) I got good value for my money.
(v) There is something wrong with the tone values in all his paintings.
There is no need to refer to Economics and economic interpretations to
understand that in these five sentences, the word 'value' has a series of
meanings, or more accurately, a series of areas of meaning. It is only from
the context that we can determine which area of meaning is to be assigned
to a particular word. But on account of different social, economic, cultural
and educational backgrounds, people interpret even the contexts differ-
ently. The result is miscommunication.

11. Solutions to overcome semantic barriers:
•We should prefer words which are familiar to the receiver in the
interpretation we wish to give them.
•If we want the receiver to give an unfamiliar meaning to a familiar word
within the context of our message, we should make it amply clear the first
time we use it.
•If we feel that a word being used by us is likely to be unfamiliar to the
receiver, we should make its meaning clear the first time we use it.
•Whenever possible, we should choose words with positive rather than
negative connotations.
When semantic barriers are less in any communication, the
communication is effective and desired results can be obtained.

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