Abstract
In this article, the methodological bases of the conception of causal text typology developed by O.I. Valentinova as a means of tracing the change of consciousness as a result of the change of a relationship between the sign and the meaning are realized in the research of the empirical material which is of great significance for the understanding of Russian culture - historically new contexts emerging in Pushkin’s literary experience. The algorithm of action proposed by the author leads to semiotically significant conclusions that the irreversibility of changes of consciousness is expressed in the change of the principle of organization of the semantic structure of the word, that the semantic structure of the language and word reflects a sharp reduction of the ethical basis in secular consciousness