The objective of this work is to analyze the argumentative discourse of men and women, immigrants and Chileans, residing in the Los Ríos region, through the reconstruction of argumentative schemes, used to justify points of view, in relation to the pandemic situation, at the year 2020.The design of this study is framed within the qualitative paradigm, with a descriptive-interpretive scope. The theoretical-methodological framework of the research draws on the theory of argumentation, mainly from the pragma-dialectic approach. The analysis contemplates the identification and description of the argumentative schemes used and their propositional orientation, which is approached from the variables of gender and place of origin. The results show that the study participants use various argumentative strategies to justify points of view, with a predominant inclination towards symptomatic relationship schemes (examples and signs) and a lower proportion of causal schemes and analogy. The analysis on the propositional orientation of the argumentative schemes allows distinguishing a differentiated position between women and men. The former show implications of filial, vital and emotional experience in their argumentative performance, while the latter mostly distance themselves from individual life experiences, positioning themselves in global, social and ideological spheres.Este trabajo tiene por objetivo analizar el discurso argumentativo de hombres y mujeres, inmigrantes y chilenos, residentes en la Región de Los Ríos, en relación con la situación de pandemia. El diseño de este estudio se enmarca en el paradigma cualitativo, con un alcance descriptivo-interpretativo, considerando las variables de género y lugar de procedencia. El marco teórico-metodológico se nutre de la teoría de la argumentación, principalmente del enfoque de pragma-dialéctica. Los resultados evidencian el uso de esquemas de relación sintomática, causal y de analogía en la justificación de puntos de vista, con una orientación proposicional diferenciada entre mujeres y hombres, en cuanto a ámbitos discursivos semánticos.