Linear model has defined set of components required for

a communication to be established where, Sender is the person

who sends a message after encoding.

Types of Linear Communications

Different types of communication models based on linear model
of communication are:

Aristotle’s Model
Aristotle’s Model is a linear communication model which was
made for public speaking. In Aristotle’s model, the speaker sent
message and the audience receive it. The model was made to
establish a propaganda. Learn more about, Aristotle Model of
Communication.
Shannon Weaver Model
The Shannon Weaver Model of Communication is a mathematical
model used for technical communication or machine
communication like telegraph and telephone. In Shannon
Weaver’s model, if the channel does not have distorting elements
or noise producing elements, the communication is successful.
Learn more about Shannon Weaver Model of Communication.

Berlo’s SMCR Model

Berlo’s Model was made to understand general human
communication. In Berlo’s Model, communication depends on
many factors: like communication skills, attitude, knowledge,
socio-cultural systems, the way in which the message has been
sent, the content of the message, senses of the receiver, etc.
Learn more about, Berlo’s SMCR Model of Communication

Interactive Model

The interaction model of communication describes

communication as a two-way process in which participants
alternate positions as sender and receiver and generate meaning
by sending and receiving feedback within physical and
psychological contexts

The Osgood-Schramm Model

The Osgood-Schramm model is built on the theory that
communication is a two-way street, with a sender and a receiver.
Charles Egerton Osgood popularized the notion that
communication was circular rather than linear, meaning that it
required two participants taking turns sending and receiving a
message.

Later, Wilbur Schramm, who talked about the model in his book,
The Process and Effects of Communication, adapted the model
and added the notion of field of experience, or commonality, to
the mix. Field of experience incorporates what is mutually
understood between the sender and receiver. For example, a
professor of calculus would have very little luck communicating
important math principles to a classroom of kindergarten students,
because they do not share a field of experience that makes the
message easy to understand.

For his part, Schramm is considered one of the pioneers of the

mass communications field. He started the doctoral program in
mass communication at the University of Iowa, helping develop
mass communication (television, print news, and other ways to
communicate) as a university discipline.

Transactional model
Transactional model of communication is the exchange of
messages between sender and receiver where each take turns to
send or receive messages.