Cvetaeva O. Modern columnism as a part of personal journalism in the Ukrainian and American press

The dissertation is devoted to the specifics of author columns in Ukrainian and American press in the context of the personal representations of modern personal journalism. The preconditions and the main stages of the formation of columnism in the Ukrainian and world information space were analysed, its genealogical links with national traditions of Ukrainian journalistic heritage were set out. The functional typological matrix of identification of the texts of author columns was substantiated and a conceptual model of the modern author columns, which communicative nature is both interactive and transactive model of the structure of semantic space of the text was created.