ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the use of corpus-driven approach to observe the ways that language in Stormfront postings about homosexuality is used to construct discourses primarily of heterosexual masculinity but also of sexuality, gender and race, and the ways that such discourses interact. The linguistic construction of the in-group as victims may strengthen in-group ties as the perceived threat or threats to whites and straight white men in particular, may drive them to seek protective unity within their common membership. It was found that the collocational patterns around gay were similar to those of homosexual; as the former was more frequent, it was selected for analysis. However, lesbian was also chosen for further analysis as it provided information concerning the construction of women in the Stormfront data that was not found using other keywords. The collocational study of marriage highlighted how Stormfront members construct white heterosexual males as holding traditional conservative values of marriage, family and Protestantism.
