Phenomenon of the Profanny Text: Definition, Signs, Causes

The article studies the determination of terminological content of an adjective "profanny" and the establishment of its relationship and communications with "sacral texts". Consequently, it demands understanding of the concept "profanny text", allocation of its main signs, identification of the causes of this text type. In the article the author tries to make an attempt to examine both the conceptual and semantic levels of profanny texts as completely as possible. Moreover, the key questions of this research are the identification of the reasons of transformation of "sacral texts" into "profanny" one, studying of the semiotics nature of the last and
also the analysis of the application of "profanny texts". For this purpose we investigate the phenomena of adaptation and reduction in some texts like the fairy tale by S. Lagerlof, a fragment of an evangelical parable, the Sacred Gospel for children and the retelling of the Gospel by Leo Tolstoy. As a result, a number of the distinctive signs (such as pragmatical, hermeneutical, formal, linguistic means) differentiating the profanny text from the sacral prototext are allocated in the given article.