Social Speech represents Intellectual Thought and is focused on communicating with people.

Social Speech: Piaget notes that the incidence of Egocentric Speech slowly dies out between 2 and 7 years as that of Social Speech increases. Social is a reflection of Intellectual thought processes in which the attention is focused on the environment. The intent of Social Speech is to communicate with the environment and to interact with it. Hence, unlike egocentric speech, steps are taken to make the communication as successful as possible. This includes a consideration of all the parameters of language from phonemes to pragmatics. I was reminded of this once while I was in the waiting room of a Dr.’s Office when a woman of Chinese ancestry came in with her little three year old bilingual daughter.