We invite you to a press conference where we will announce the word of the year and the gesture of the year, and it will take place on Tuesday, 7. in January 2025, at 12. hours in the atrium of the ZRC at Novi TRG 2 in Ljubljana.
The list of candidates for the word of the year 2024 includes (in alphabetical order): water heater, brutal, amphibian, genocide, hybrid work, kitesurfing, Commissioner, disconnection, network charge, teachers, son-in-law.
Voting on the website beseda-leta.si it runs until 7. 12. by 11: 55. The current results show an extremely interesting outcome, which, of course, has not yet been decided by the end of the vote.
At 12: 00 we will be greeted by the head of the Slovenian language institute Fran Ramovsa and the director of the ZRC SAZU. Then linguists and experts in the field of the three highest-ranked words will accompany the finalists and novotvoryenko with a comment. This will be followed by the announcement of the one that will become the word of the year 2024 after the selection of the public, and the representatives of the Association of deaf and hard of hearing societies of Slovenia will announce the gesture of the year 2024. In the network of countries where word of the year is chosen, Slovenia is the only country to choose the word of the year together with the gesture of the year.
At the request of many, the press conference will also be available online at this link. For those who are going to attend the event live, there will be the opportunity to talk with experts over coffee and a croissant.
Vabimo vas na novinarsko konferenco, kjer bomo razglasili besedo leta in kretnjo leta, potekala pa bo v torek, 7. januarja 2025, ob 12. uri v Atriju ZRC na Novem trgu 2 v Ljubljani.
Na seznamu kandidatk za besedo leta 2024 so (po abecednem redu): bojler, brutalno, dvoživka, genocid, hibridno delo, kajtanje, komisarka, odklop, omrežnina, učitelji, zet.
Glasovanje na spletni strani beseda-leta.si poteka do 7. 12. do 11:55. Trenutni rezultati kažejo na izredno zanimiv razplet, ki pa seveda do konca glasovanja še ni odločen.
Ob 12:00 nas bosta pozdravila predstojnik Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša in direktor ZRC SAZU. Nato bodo jezikoslovci in strokovnjaki s področja treh najvišje uvrščenih besed pospremili finalistke in novotvorjenko s komentarjem. Sledila bo razglasitev tiste, ki bo po izboru javnosti postala beseda leta 2024, predstavniki Zveze društev gluhih in naglušnih Slovenije pa bodo razglasili kretnjo leta 2024. V mreži držav, kjer potekajo izbori besede leta, je Slovenija edina, ki besedo leta izbira skupaj s kretnjo leta.
Tiskovna konferenca bo na prošnjo mnogih dostopna tudi prek spleta, in sicer na tej povezavi. Za tiste, ki se boste prireditve udeležili v živo, bo na voljo možnost pogovora s strokovnjaki ob kavi in rogljičku.