This study aims to consider the formation background and growth process of language-literature consciousness, which began to spring up in modern times, based on the articles and editorials of newspapers and academic journals published in the modern enlightenment period. The modern enlightenment period is when the national sovereignty fell and the existence of the country was in crisis due to economic and social plunder of Japan, and the unrest of traditional society deepened due to the surging Western culture. In this period, modern educational thought began to be formed and this educational thought influenced the establishment of practical learning-centered educational thought stating that the people should be taught about useful learning. Especially, printed media including newspapers and magazines received a lot of attention as a means to convey this modern educational thought, since it was thought that newspapers or magazines were effective in enlightening modern educational thought, or propagating letters and bring people together. So far, various studies on the modern and contemporary history have been focused on language-literature education and language-literature policy. This study is focused on `modern times` like the existing studies, but reconstructed the expression and growth of language-literature consciousness of those times from a macroscopic perspective, based on the newspapers and academic journals that can show the phases of the times explicitly. After building a DB of relevant media, also, a discussion was performed, based on the recognition and view of language to maintain objective information and avoid mechanical data interpretation.