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Listening is not quite the same thing as hearing. Hearing is a biological process that can be scientifically explained, but listening is a psychological process of what happens to sounds as we interpret and use them. It is a cognitive activity.
In psychology, speech is part of pragmatics, a field which deals with signs and their interpretation. The signs in question are called "speech acts".