I think language learning should be kind of interpreted like a chess game~a checkmate is achieved through the collaboration of multiple pieces. Likewise, when learning a language, a student should be relatively holistic in their process, incorporating various disciplinary perspectives to adequately capture their target language in all its complexity. Evidently, sound, grammar, and meaning are the bedrock of a language and thus should be prioritized when trying to learn a new language. However, if we stop there then as the reading suggests we are depriving ourselves of fully immersing ourselves in our target language. For example, take sociology as a discipline; learning our target language should also include learning about the connection between the language and the society that it is tied to. How the society affects the language-the way things are said, when they are said, etc. As said in class, the limits of one's language is the limits of one's mind. Therefore, language is a reflection of what is in the minds of the society that speaks it, a reflection of the attitudes of the society that speaks it. All this helps a language learner understand their target language through a lens they otherwise would not have. In regards to the structure reading, I think it might have confused me on the third facet of language-meaning. How can meaning have structure?
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