We draw from the meaning-making practices on the margins, the communicative repertoires of the multilingual and multicultural students at two Southern African universities: the University of Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia; and the University of Malawi in Zomba, Malawi. As our locus, we are interested in the unique linguistic/semiotic coinages which constitute the students’ linguistic repertoires as multilingual innovations amenable to placemaking. In an attempt to do this, we purposefully unearth lexical innovations which we analyse within the broader framework of translanguaging. Thus, we show the emergence of (new) lexical items through the (re-)invention and disinvention of communicative resources, and the deployment of material artefacts of place as a basis for the creativity and innovation through repurposing of lexical items for new uses. Thus, we privilege students as active manipulators of their communicative practices by showing the semiotic/linguistic creativity and innovation inherent in their repertoires.

我们从两所南部非洲大学的多语种和多文化学生的边缘意义创造实践中汲取了交际能力：赞比亚卢萨卡的赞比亚大学；以及位于马拉维松巴的马拉维大学。作为我们的中心，我们对独特的语言/符号造币感兴趣，这些造币构成了学生的语言曲目，作为适合场所营造的多语言创新。为了做到这一点，我们有目的地挖掘我们在更广泛的跨语言框架内分析的词汇创新。因此，我们通过交流资源的（再）发明和去发明展示了（新）词项的出现，以及通过将词项重新用于新用途而将场所的物质人工制品作为创造力和创新的基础的部署。因此，