Just as an informative comment: priming is actually a term from psychology and perhaps peculiarly psycholinguistics. I am doing some research into this. An example of priming is: if you show participants a whole number of sentences, and most of those use a passive construction (“The apple was eaten by the man.”), and then show them a picture and ask them to describe it, and they describe what they see with a passive then they were (unconsciously) primed by the earlier texts.