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Transforming Talk Daniel Harding speak and thinkIn recent decades, scholars have shown an increasing interest in gossips social, psychological, and literary functions. The first book length study of medieval gossip, Transforming Talk shifts the current debate and argues that gossip functions primarily as a transformative discourse, influencing not only social interactions but also literary and religious practices. Known as jangling in Middle English, gossip was believed to corrupt parishioners,