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What are semantic barriers of communication?

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While communicating a message, misrepresentation of communication causes misunderstanding on account of use of wrong words, lack of vocabulary skills, faulty translations and different interpretations which is known as semantic barriers. It is concerned with the problems that arises in the process of encoding and decoding of message into words or impressions.

Main causes of semantic barriers are listed below.

  • Badly expressed message
  • Symbols with different meanings
  • Faulty translations
  • Unclarified assumptions
  • Technical jargon
  • Body language and gesture decoding Question.
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