"The Three Listening Modes" by Michel Chion

When we ask someone to speak about what they have heard, their answers are striking for the heterogeneity of levels of hearing to which they refer. This is because there are at least three modes of listening, each of which addresses different objects. We shall call them causal listening, semantic listening, and reduced listening.

At http://helios.hampshire.edu/~hacu123/papers/chion.html.