This article deals with the discursive disputes about political amnesty arising from the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985), presenting the result of the discourse analysis on a corpus composed of interviews with amnestied military personnel and military personnel representing the dominant thinking within the Armed Forces (established). For this, we adopted the methodological approach of Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (ADC) (1992, 2003, 2010). Before analyzing the data, we explain theoretically and methodologically the assumptions of the ADC. We aim to analyze the social representations of the military
(amicable and established) about amnesty, trying to understand if there is difference in the constructions of each group regarding political amnesty