Interpersonal Communication
Dear John and Marry
I want to congratulate you on your wedding. I hope that both of you will have a happy life and you can understand each other well. In this letter, I want to give you some guidelines regarding the basic principles of interpersonal communication.
Some of the principles and misconceptions in interpersonal communication
The sharing of thoughts, feelings and ideas with the other person is referred as interpersonal communication. These skills of sharing our feelings are developed through learned behaviors and they can be further improved with practice, reflection, knowledge and feedback. People deal with interpersonal communication on routine basis and it is imperative to understand some of the basic principles of interpersonal communication. These basic principles are described below:
Interpersonal communication is not reversible:
This means that interpersonal communication cannot be reversed back. When a person says something, he cannot take his words back in real sense and cannot remove them from the minds of others. People can only say that forget what I said but this is actually not possible that people will forget something willfully (DeVito, 2012). Therefore, it is imperative to communicate in a good way and to think before communicating with others.
Interpersonal communication is a contextual communication
Since communication cannot occur in isolation, therefore there are certain contexts, which need to be considered in interpersonal communication such as situational, relational, environmental, psychological and cultural context.
Interpersonal communication is not simple
It is a fact that this communication is quite complicated because there are several other things in the mind of a person when he is communicating with the other person. Apart from this, the more the conversation occurs, the more complicated it becomes (Floyd, 2011).
Interpersonal communication is unavoidable
This communication can never be avoided. Even if the person does not want to communicate, he communicates this to the other party through his gestures and postures.
Besides the principles of interpersonal communication, there are some misconceptions about it that are necessary to remove such as some researchers are of the view that effective interpersonal communication can only occur when there is a complete understanding of the message. However, it is a great misconception because at certain times relationships can also be maintained without the proper understanding of the message. For instance, a wife might comment about the beloved pet of her husband, which she dislikes that it will enjoy more if we send it at the neighbor house to play with other pets. In this way, the wife delivers a message, which is not clear, and the relationship is maintained. Another misconception about interpersonal communication is that it solves every problem (West & Turner, 2011). For instance, a wife argues with her husband of coming late at home, the husband and wife then communicates about this problem and it was settled that the husband would not come late at home from the next day. Nevertheless, he did not lose his practice of coming late. In this way, interpersonal communication is a solution for all problems is a misconception.
Some barriers of effective interpersonal communication
Technological barriers
If an interpersonal communication is taking place with the use of technology and any one of the person do not have proper command on the proper usage of then this barrier is likely to occur. Not only is this, but usage of technology in interpersonal communicating is itself a barrier. However, people are bound to use it in case of being at a distant with the other person but since the most effective interpersonal communication can only occur with the natural tone, body language and eye contact, therefore technology is a barrier (Floyd, 2011).
Language barriers
A language barrier may arise in effective interpersonal communication if any one of the person lacks an understanding of the language in which communication is taking place. Apart from this, if any one of the person lacks proper usage of the language, then this can also turn into a barrier.
Psychological barriers
Some barriers also arise due to the perception of a person. Different people have different perception about a particular event or topic and due to this reason; the receiver may interpret the message of the sender in a different way, which was different from the sender's perception. These differences of the perception often act as great barriers in an affective interpersonal communication (West & Turner, 2011).
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