Avant-garde manifesto as an utterance

The literary manifesto is analyzed as a special speech genre, which is characterized by the use of typical, stable principles of grammatical organization of the material. The general problem of the study of manifestos is connected with the uncertainty of this category, mobility and transparency of its boundaries in relation to other forms of metatexts. At the same time, the theoretical uncertainty of the manifesto does not prevent us from perceiving certain texts as manifestos. The article assumes that the manifesto is a speech genre, it contains speech patterns that support the receptive attitude of the reader or researcher and at the same time allow us to implement the typical pragmatic functions of the manifesto. The article proposes a hypothesis that understanding the manifesto as a statement based on the model of description of syntactic predicativity proposed by VV Vinogradov will allow us to clarify the nature of mamfestar creativity. Using the material of the manifestos of the Russian avant-garde, the article demonstrates that the grammatical texture of the manifesto can be used to express pragmatic attitudes and establish a special type of communication with the reader and the literary context. Thus, the category of personality represents the manifesto’s orientation towards a collective type of aesthetic declaration, the forms of grammatical tense are used to express the performative nature of the manifesto, and the mobility of modal meanings activates the forms of the reader’s perception of the manifesto.