This chronicle is an account of the third international conference Language and Method. The Russian Language in 21st Century Linguistic Research, which took place between 17th–19th May 2017 in a historic building of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland. It presents the topic of this year’s edition of the conference (Syntax in text. Text in syntax. Linguistic analysis in the Bermuda Triangle: Combinability – Semantics – Pragmatics), subjects of plenary and section sessions and all the issues concerning the organization of such a large-scale academic enterprise. Our guests of honour were Olga T. Yokoyama (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles), Laura A. Janda (University of Tromsø, Norway) and Maksim Anisimovich Krongauz (The Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow).