2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/15862I propose a model for determining the hearer's attentional state which depends solely on a list of salient discourse entities (S-list). The ordering among the elements of the S-list covers also the function of the backward-looking center in the centering model. The ranking criteria for the S-list are based on the distinction between hearer-old and hearer-new discourse entities and incorporate preferences for inter- and intra-sentential anaphora. The model is the basis for an algorithm which operates incrementally, word by word.7 pages, uses colacl.sty, epsfig.sty, times.sty, lingmacros.styComputation and Languagetext