A Corpus-based Study of the Truth-related Words in Korean Used as Discourse Markers. Kim, Taeho & Jeong, Seon-yeong . 2012. Studies in Cross-cultural studies. This study investigates how the truth-related words in Korean, which were originally noun or adverb with ``truth`` related meaning, can be used as discourse markers with the functions such as ``emphatic marker``, ``attention getter``, or ``hesitation marker``, and it argues that such functions of the discourse markers are the result of grammaticalization process. That is to say that the truth-related words have acquired new functions as discourse markers from their corresponding lexical items as a noun or an adverb through grammaticalization process. In this study, we demonstrate that the truth-related words tend to appear sentence-initially or sentence-medially when they are used as discourse markers. We also show that they are most likely to be used as emphatic marker because of the lexical meaning of the truth-related words. Finally, we state that truth-related words differ from one another in where they appear and what function they are used with.