This study aims to achieve qualitative research on the linguistic consciousness of the internet. This paper reviewed works of linguistic regarding norm and consciousness, and took note of social tax that is negative impact on the writer’s ethos.
Then internet replies at the internet news media were collected according to the procedures. 1,500 replies analysed by linguistic norms were recorded in Excel and 29,380 replies on 1,500 replies were investigated to observe responses to errors. 161 replies in response to replies containing errors were categorized three types: ‘simple proofreading’, ‘making fun of error’, ‘negative evaluation’.
As a result, it was confirmed that there was a self-purification of the using non-normative language in the Internet language ecosystem. The public saw the non-normative language and reacted differently. The public has shown a variety of responses to non - normative languages, and when negative evaluations have been excessive, they have manifested repulsion.
In Korean language education, in order to cope with this phenomenon, it is necessary to expand the outline of peer assessment and to make good assessment of peer as education contents. Finally, there must be a large-scale study of non-normative language that bear more social taxes and expressions that do not.