International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies(IJHAS) webpage link : https://airccse.com/ijhas/index.html NATURALIZED DISCOURSE IN ARGUMENTS: A TEXTUAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS Authors M.E. Garcia-Jerez ,Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Abstract This paperdiscusses that using a textual approach to study social representations in arguments could help to better understand the relationships among naturalized discourse and argumentation. To naturalize an utterance,i.e. to make it commonsensical, is to give an arbitrary utterance the quality of “true” without questioning the ideological context which frames -and, therefore, gives meaning- to that utterance . Keywords Social Representations, Argument, Text, Critical Discourse Analysis. pdf link -- https://airccse.com/ijhas/papers/1216ijhas01.pdf Volume Link --- https://airccse.com/ijhas/vol1.html