Based on Arabic and Russian newspaper materials, the article discusses ways to implement the communicative function of a newspaper headline, which plays a crucial role in establishing communication with the reader, making it easier for them to understand the text. It is expressed in the text using such methods as informative, graphic, pragmatic, expressive, and intertextual. Such methods are universal and are equally common to headlines in the Arab and Russian press. Keywords: communication function, newspaper headline, punctuation marks, Arabic press, Russian press. ARAB NEWSPAPER HEADLINES AND THEIR COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION Elena SABININA This paper is based on Arabic and Russian newspaper materials and reviews the ways of expressing the communicative function of newspaper headline which plays an important role in building communication with readers and facilitating their understanding of text. It manifests itself in the text with the help of such methods as informative, graphic, pragmatic, expressive and intertextual. Such methods are universal and equally typical for headlines in Arabic and Russian press. Keywords: communicative function, newspaper headline, punctuation marks, Arabic press, Russian press. THEORETICAL VIEWS ON NEWSPAPER HEADLINE FUNCTIONS Linguists distinguish different functions of the title depending on the functional style of the title text and the nature of the publication. The object of this study is the communicative function of a newspaper headline. It is recognized as one of the leading ones and manifests itself in the fact that the title helps to establish contact between the author and the reader, i.e. "serves to express a message about the subject of speech" [Wompersky, 1966, p.84]. The communicative function of a newspaper headline is really the most important. It helps to establish communication between the author and the reader, and facilitates their understanding of the text. Many authors distinguish a number of other functions of th ... Read more