I think I've heard of something like that. I can't quite remember were I heard it, but think it may be categorized under priming. More usefully it inspired me to think of the searching for research on euphemisms*, which looks moderately inherently relevant and got me some promising keywords. Linguistic relativity is mentioned several times, but it looks like it's just a synonym for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It was however, enough to get me this overview of several related theories which contains some directly relevant information, and looks like a good source for keyword mining. I'll try to add some more in the morning, but its getting late here.

*This was using a psychology focused database, trying it on google scholar will get you buried in humanities stuff.