The present study aims to contribute to the conceptual, structural and functional clarification of oral communication and audio perception, in an era that follows the definition of perception by reference to intelligence (J. Piaget) and its characterization as ¿intelligent¿ (J. Rock) . Communication and audio perception are constructive processes, devices based on strategies and mechanisms (it is not just a ¿cognitive mechanism¿ as J. Piaget, M. Zlate and others consider); these are cognitive activities of processing, synthesizing, organizing and structuring sensations. Our thesis is that oral communication begins with audio perception and that it is constructed like a building. Our research will bring, as tools, concepts and metaconcepts of science in which research is developed. Through logistics, the working method is cognitive; following the communicative process, it is also procedural, and through the way it organizes the investigation of the meta-object ¿communication¿ (which has an object, the communicative object), it acquires a constructive character.

¿tefan Vl¿düescu es profesor de Comunicación en la Universidad de Craiova, Rumanía. Es miembro de la Asociación Internacional de Comunicación (EE.UU.). Es autor o coautor de 16 libros profesionales, de 120 artículos científicos en revistas rumanas e internacionales y en actas de seminarios y conferencias internacionales.