The Language You Speak Influences Where Your Attention Goes

In my country we suddenly listen to linguistic construtivists and that did not provide any measurable benefit yet. On the contrary in my opinion. While there is a hint of truth in there, the application just netted religious dogma until now. The normal language is implied to be discriminatory and we allegedly need lazy technocrats to correct our thoughts. Some call them woke, which is derided as a term. It is of course applied too generously and doesn't contain intrinsic or deep criticism itself. But it is an idea that spread before there was a word for it. Perhaps there have been or will be more fitting terms.

Well worth to learn another language because they often contain peculiarities about how other cultures describe the world, but to suggest that language determines thought is a bit exaggerated in my opinion. Very often it is just vocabulary for communication, even if said communication is full of subtext.

Of course there are trivial examples where the headline is true. Using a more precise term can channel attention to details that my have been overlooked with a more general expression. That eye movements could be influence by parsing language could be true, but I don't believe this can qualify as a different thought pattern and the eye movements probably only happen in the absence of attention to visual stimuli.

I wager this phenomena cannot be replicated. This is like the priming research which couldn't be replicated. But marketing people spend a lot of money on it.