["Mind &Language, EarlyView. ", "\nThe notion of conversational salience has proven useful for linguistic theorizing. Regardless of whether salience determines facts about meaning or merely aids in the communication of meanings, what is said is tied up with what is salient. I argue that the linguistic notion of salience is best understood in terms of the psychological notion of mutual attention. I discuss competing options and argue that only mutual attention suffices for establishing conversational salience in the way required by linguistic theory. The picture that emerges is one on which conversational moves function in part to coordinate the attentional states of interlocutors.\n"]