Hämäläinen, A Grammar of Autistic Language Use – The Gestalt Construction Grammar Approach

In her essay, A Grammar of Autistic Language Use – The Gestalt Construction Grammar Approach, Pia Hämäläinen, an autistic theorist, suggests that the classification of language learning routes and language use as analytic and Gestalt one proposed by Prizant, could serve as a basis for applying construction grammar to autism. As the traditional view of construction grammar seems to be an analytic one, Hämäläinen proposes a Gestalt view of construction grammar, Gestalt construction grammar, to depict autistic language use in a positive light. Hämäläinen further proposes that applying linguistic theory like discourse analysis and stylistics, might also clarify language use in autism.