Semantic Peculiarities of the Fragment "Vocal Action" in the Novel "Summer of the Lord" by I. Shmelev
The article describes the fragment of the semantic field singing in the novel “Summer of the Lord” by I. Shmelev which includes verbs and verbal expressions with the meaning of ‘vocal action'. If compared with a codified literary language the fragment displays considerable extension. The author mentions the words which gained a contextually conditioned figurative meaning and/or were combined in a special way. The analysis of the lexical means and their comparison with the plot and the main ideas of the novel enable the author to account the extension for the peculiarities of real informal speech reflected in the novel.