When the receiver assigns a meaning to a language symbol in communication, it is called

When the receiver assigns a meaning to a language symbol in communication, it is called reverse labeling.

Reverse labeling is the receiver working back from the symbol to the meaning it stands for.

Response names the receiver's reaction to a message, not the act of assigning meaning to a symbol.

Perception is the broader taking-in of stimuli, wider than fixing meaning to a specific language symbol.

Meaning mapping is not the accepted term for this receiver act.

The receiver thus reconstructs the sender's intended meaning by labeling the symbol.