Abstract

With some exceptions, most people, most of the time, do want to communicate and strive to achieve effective communication. To do that, they have to overcome various obstacles to communication. In the terminology of information theory, all the obstacles to communication are subsumed under the term noise. These obstacles, in their turn, can be related to all the elements of the process of communication and to the pragmatics of language in communication . This paper is an attempt to describe some of the possible obstacles to successful communication and to suggest a number of remedies