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Emilia Djonov is an Australian linguist. She is Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University. She is a leading figure in early childhood language and literacy and is recognised for her in multiliteracies, multimodality, critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and educational linguistics. She has numerous books, book chapters and journal article publications.

Biography
Djonov graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2000 with First Class Honours and a University Medal in German and Linguistics. She went on to complete her PhD at the University of New South Wales in 2006. Her first academic appointment was at the Institute of Early Childhood at Macquarie University in 2006 as a part-time, teaching-only lecturer. She then went on to receive her first full-time research and teaching position as lecturer in Language and Literacy Education at the University of Wollongong in 2008. In 2009, Djonov was awarded the prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, her research entitled Towards a social theory of semiotic technology: exploring PowerPoint's design and its use in higher education and corporate settings.

In 2011, Djonov was appointed Lecturer in Early Childhood Language and Literacy at the Institute of Early Childhood and Department of Educational Studies at Macquarie University which was then converted to a Senior Lecturer Position in 2018. She is now Director of the Master of Education, Master of Early Childhood and Master of Educational Leadership programs at Macquarie University. In 2018, Djonov received the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for her entitled Language for learning: developing learning-oriented talk in long-day-care. The project seeks to understand how long-day-care either supports or constraints infant-toddler early learning.

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Contributions to linguistics
Djonov has major contributions to the development of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Social Semiotics.