In this article, we examine the multilingual realities of language contact at the University of Zambia. Using an ethnographic research design, we observe the dynamics of the students’ language practices both in the physical and on the online landscape. As our locus, we use a physical conversation and Facebook narratives in which students drew on English and Bemba to illustrate instances of blending and mixing as multilingual practices arising from translanguaging. We show that the mixing of words and the blending of morphemes from the two different languages gives evidence of how students (re)create, (re)produce, and (re)shape their meaning-making instances.

在本文中，我们研究了赞比亚大学语言接触的多语言现实。使用人种学研究设计，我们观察了学生在自然环境和在线环境中语言实践的动态。作为我们的学习场所，我们使用肢体对话和Facebook叙事，其中学生使用英语和Bemba来举例说明混合和混合的实例，这些实例是由翻译产生的多语​​言实践。我们表明，两种不同语言的单词混合和语素的混合提供了学生如何（重新）创造，（重新）产生和（重新）塑造其意义实例的证据。