Which term refers to the sender of the message?

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Identifying who initiates the message in a communication process. The sender is called the source—the originator who turns ideas into a message ready to be sent. Encoding is the act of converting thoughts into symbols or words, a process the sender performs, not a label for who is sending. The receiver is the person who gets and decodes the message, and the channel is the medium that carries it. So, the term that refers to the sender is source, because it names the originator of the message, while encoding describes the action, and the other terms describe the recipient or the medium.