Preliminary notes on abdicated other-correction

Occasionally we can find the following sort of thing happening: A recipient of an erroneous statement, who has the resources to see that an error has been made, ‘passes’ the statement with, e.g., an acknowledgement token, i.e., accepts the statement as is. The prior speaker then produces a self-correction, whereupon the recipient, now in response to the corrected statement, produces the same response as that with which he accepted the erroneous statement. By so doing, the recipient may be minimizing the import of the error in the first place, and thus, perhaps, the import of his having accepted the erroneous statement.