"This volume represents the corrected and revised proceedings of the 1966 Linguistic Institute Conference on Linguistic Method, organized by the Bunker-Ramo Corporation under the auspices of the University of California, Los Angeles, and under the sponsorship of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research of the Office of Aerospace Research, under Contract No. AF 49(638)-1677, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, 1-3 August 1966."

Some aspects of the relation between theory and method /Yuen Ren Chao -- Method and theory in the perspective of anthropological linguistics / Harvey Pitkin -- Method, theory and phenomenology / John W.M. Verhaar -- Behaviroal tests in linguistics / Paul L. Garvin -- The method of universal grammar / Paul M. Postal -- One instance of Prague School methodology: functional analysis of utterance and text / Frantisek Danes -- Basic principles of the comparative method / Werner Winter -- Theory-building in the descriptive approach / Madeleine Mathiot -- Hierarchy in language / Robert E. Longacre -- A structural view of sociolinguistics . Jose Pedro Rona -- Experimental method in psycholinguistics / Jean Dubois and L. Irigaray -- Linguistic method in ethnography / Dell H. Hymes.