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What is the correct chronological sequence of the following models of communication?

1.Linear model
2.Helical model
3.Aristotelian model
4.Circular model
A1, 2, 3, 4
B3, 1, 4, 2 ✓ Correct
C2, 4, 1, 3
D4, 1, 3, 2
Correct answer: (B) 3, 1, 4, 2
Explanation

The correct chronological sequence runs from the Aristotelian model, to the linear model, to the circular model, and then to the helical model.

The Aristotelian model, item 3, comes first as the oldest, an ancient rhetorical scheme of speaker, message and audience.

The linear model, item 1, follows, the one-way transmission view exemplified by Shannon and Weaver in the mid-twentieth century.

The circular model, item 4, comes next, adding feedback and mutual exchange in the Osgood and Schramm tradition of the 1950s.

The helical model, item 2, is the most recent, proposed by Frank Dance in 1967 to show communication growing ever more complex over time.

This ordering places the ancient rhetoric first and the twentieth-century models in their developing sequence of one-way, circular and then spiralling views.

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